Where does “matern” come from?

matern (Catalan) comes from Italian materno, from Latin māternus, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

matern (Catalan): maternal, motherly

Definitions

  1. maternal, motherly

Ancestry of “matern”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmaternomother; maternal, motherly
2Latinmāternusof or pertaining to a mother, maternal
3Latin-nus-an
4Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin māternus →
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