Where does “cobra” come from?

cobra (Dutch) comes from Portuguese cobra, from Old Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin colobra, from Latin colubra, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cobra (Dutch): cobra, venomous snake from certain genera of the...

Definitions

  1. cobra, venomous snake from certain genera of the...

Ancestry of “cobra”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesecobrasnake
2Old Portuguesecoobrasnake
3Vulgar Latincolobra—
4Latincolubraa female snake, serpent; snake, serpent
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “cobra”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin colubra →
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