Where does “abrikotarbo” come from?
abrikotarbo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto abrikoto, from German Aprikose, from Dutch abrikoos, from French apricots, from Latin praecox, from Latin praecoquō, from Latin coquō, from English Cook.
abrikotarbo (Esperanto): apricot tree
Ancestry of “abrikotarbo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | abrikoto | apricot |
| 2 | German | Aprikose | apricot |
| 3 | Dutch | abrikoos | apricot |
| 4 | French | apricots | — |
| 5 | Latin | praecox | ripe before its time; premature; precocious;... |
| 6 | Latin | praecoquō | — |
| 7 | Latin | coquō | — |
| 8 | English | Cook | — |
| 9 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 10 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 11 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 13 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |