Where does “desembullar” come from?
desembullar (Catalan) comes from Spanish embullar, from Spanish bulla, from Spanish bullir, from Latin bulliō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé- — he, she.
desembullar (Catalan): to untangle
Definitions
- to untangle
Ancestry of “desembullar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | embullar | to excite; to stir up; to tell lies |
| 2 | Spanish | bulla | rowdiness, racket, ruckus; urgence |
| 3 | Spanish | bullir | to boil; to boil, to bubble, to churn; to bustle |
| 4 | Latin | bulliō | to bubble |
| 5 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |