Where does “fala” come from?

fala (Asturian) comes from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

fala (Asturian): speaking, speech; third-person singular present...

Definitions

  1. speaking, speech; third-person singular present...

Ancestry of “fala”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfābuladiscourse, narrative
2Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
3Proto-Italic-olos—
4Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
5Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ulus →Every word from Latin fābula →