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Where does “pseudoglanders” come from?

pseudoglanders (English) comes from English glanders, from Middle English glandres, from Old French glandres, from Old French glandre, from Latin glāndula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

pseudoglanders (English): melioidosis

Definitions

  1. melioidosis

Ancestry of “pseudoglanders”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishglandersAn infectious disease of horses, mules and...
2Middle Englishglandres—
3Old Frenchglandres—
4Old Frenchglandre—
5Latinglāndula—
6Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
7Proto-Italic-olos—
8Proto-Italic-elos—
9Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
10Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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