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Where does “abelujo” come from?

abelujo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto abelo, from French abeille, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

abelujo (Esperanto): beehive

Definitions

  1. beehive

Ancestry of “abelujo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoabelobee
2Frenchabeillebee, honeybee; a writer whose style is considered...
3French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
4Middle French-é—
5Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
6Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
7Proto-Italic-ā—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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