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Where does “paravaginally” come from?

paravaginally (English) comes from English paravaginal, from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar — to succeed, to prosper.

paravaginally (English): Adjacent to the wall of the vagina

Definitions

  1. Adjacent to the wall of the vagina

Ancestry of “paravaginally”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishparavaginalAdjacent to the wall of the vagina
2EnglishPará—
3PortugueseParáa state in the North Region of Brazil
4PortuguesePera—
5Portugueseesperawait
6Portugueseesperarto wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate
7Old Portugueseasperar—
8Old Spanishesperar—
9Latinspērō—
10Latinspeshope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension
11Proto-Italicspēshope
12Proto-Indo-Europeanspéh₁sprosperity, success
13Proto-Indo-Europeanspeh₁-to succeed, to prosper
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