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Where does “lupulin” come from?

lupulin (English) comes from Latin lupulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

lupulin (English): Small hairs obtained from the strobili of the hop...

Definitions

  1. Small hairs obtained from the strobili of the hop...

Ancestry of “lupulin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlupulusa small wolf
2Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
3Proto-Italic-olos—
4Proto-Italic-elos—
5Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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