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Where does “quellio” come from?

quellio (English) comes from Spanish cuello, from Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

quellio (English): A ruff for the neck

Definitions

  1. A ruff for the neck

Ancestry of “quellio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcuelloneck; collar
2Old Spanishcuelloneck
3Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
4Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-Italic-ā—
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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