Where does “porcellana” come from?
porcellana (Catalan) comes from Italian porcellana, from Italian porcella, from Italian porca, from Latin porca, from Esperanto porka, from Esperanto porko, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic porkos — passed , crossed.
porcellana (Catalan): porcelain
Ancestry of “porcellana”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | porcellana | porcelain, china; third-person singular present... |
| 2 | Italian | porcella | female equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer |
| 3 | Italian | porca | the ridge between two furrows; balk; sow; A... |
| 4 | Latin | porca | sow; the ridge between two furrows; a balk |
| 5 | Esperanto | porka | porcine |
| 6 | Esperanto | porko | pig |
| 7 | Latin | porcus | a piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; Short for... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | porkos | pig |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pórḱos | piglet |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | perḱ- | colored; motley; to open, rip up |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |