Where does “esquerdar” come from?

esquerdar (Catalan) comes from Catalan -ar, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

esquerdar (Catalan): to crack

Definitions

  1. to crack

Ancestry of “esquerdar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalan-ar-ar; Used to form nouns indicating where a given...
2Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -āris →