Where does “Po” come from?

Po is an English name for the river derived from Italian Po, from Latin Padus, from Ancient Ligurian Bodincus, tracing back through Proto-Indo-European roots dʰewh₂- and dʰewbʰ-.

Po (English): which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice

Definitions

  1. which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice

Ancestry of “Po”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianPo
2LatinPadusthe River Po
3LeponticBodincus
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰudʰmḗnbottom
5Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewbʰ-deep
6Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂-
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