Where does “cavalla” come from?

cavalla (Catalan) comes from Spanish caballa, from Latin caballa, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cavalla (Catalan): mackerel

Definitions

  1. mackerel

Ancestry of “cavalla”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcaballamackerel
2Latincaballamare
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin caballa →
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