Where does “album” come from?

album (Danish) comes from English album, from Latin album, from Latin Albus, from Proto-Italic alβos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂élbʰos — white.

album (Danish): An album

Definitions

  1. An album

Ancestry of “album”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishalbumA book specially designed to keep photographs,...
2Latinalbuminflection of albus: ## accusative masculine...
3LatinAlbuswhite properly without, dull white
4Proto-Italicalβoswhite
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂élbʰoswhite

Words derived from “album”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂élbʰos →Every word from Proto-Italic alβos →Every word from Latin Albus →