Where does “treballar” come from?
treballar (Catalan) comes from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
treballar (Catalan): to work
Ancestry of “treballar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 2 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 3 | Latin | tripālis | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 5 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
Words derived from “treballar”