Where does “lent” come from?

lent (Cornish) comes from Latin lentus, from Proto-Indo-European lentos.

lent (Cornish): slow

Definitions

  1. slow

Ancestry of “lent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlentussticky, tenacious; slow, sluggish; flexible,...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanlentos—

Words derived from “lent”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European lentos →
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