Where does “vacuna” come from?

vacuna (Chavacano) comes from Spanish vacuna, from Spanish -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

vacuna (Chavacano): vaccine

Definitions

  1. vaccine

Ancestry of “vacuna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishvacunavaccine; feminine singular of vacuno
2Spanish-a-ess used to form feminine singular nouns; used...
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Spanish -a →
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