Where does “cèrvia” come from?
cèrvia (Catalan) comes from Latin cervia, from Latin cerva, from Latin cervus, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
cèrvia (Catalan): doe, hind female deer
Ancestry of “cèrvia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | cervia | — |
| 2 | Latin | cerva | a female deer, doe, hind |
| 3 | Latin | cervus | deer, stag; forked stakes; cheval de frise |
| 4 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
Words derived from “cèrvia”