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Where does “Tero” come from?

Tero (Esperanto) comes from French Terre, from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin Terra, from Proto-Indo-European ters- — dry.

Tero (Esperanto): Earth

Definitions

  1. Earth

Ancestry of “Tero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchTerreEarth; the Earth
2Middle Frenchterreearth; soil; land, property
3Old Frenchterreearth; soil; land, property
4LatinTerragoddess of the earth; the Earth itself; tierra ...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanters-dry

Words derived from “Tero”

  • terano
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters- →