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Where does “ombra” come from?

ombra (Catalan) comes from Old Occitan ombra, from Latin umbra, from Old Latin omra, from Proto-Indo-European h₂mr-u-.

ombra (Catalan): shade, shadow

Definitions

  1. shade, shadow

Ancestry of “ombra”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanombra—
2Latinumbraa shadow; a shade; a ghost
3Old Latinomra—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂mr-u-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂mr-u- →