Where does “Priorat” come from?

Priorat (Catalan) comes from Latin prioratus, from Latin prior, from Proto-Italic priōs, from Proto-Italic prijōs, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Priorat (Catalan): a denomination of qualified origin within the comarca of Priorat

Definitions

  1. a denomination of qualified origin within the comarca of Priorat

Ancestry of “Priorat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinprioratuspriority, precedence; priory
2Latinpriorformer, prior, previous; the first, the original;...
3Proto-Italicpriōsformer
4Proto-Italicprijōs—
5Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
6Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “Priorat”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós →Every word from Proto-Italic -jōs →Every word from Proto-Italic prijōs →
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