Where does “envelar” come from?

envelar (Catalan) comes from Catalan vela, from Old Occitan vela, from Vulgar Latin vela, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Italic *wekslom.

envelar (Catalan): to veil

Definitions

  1. to veil

Ancestry of “envelar”, step by step

envelar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Catalan vela

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanvelasail; sailing
2Old Occitanvela
3Vulgar Latinvelasynonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative...
4Latinvēluma cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
5Proto-Italic*wekslom

via Catalan vel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanvelveil
2Latinvelumthe sail of a ship; a cloth, curtain, veil,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanweǵʰ-to bring; to transport

Words derived from “envelar

Every word from Proto-Italic *wekslom