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Where does “biletejo” come from?

biletejo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto bileto, from French billet, from Old French billette, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.

biletejo (Esperanto): place where one buys tickets, ticket office

Definitions

  1. place where one buys tickets, ticket office

Ancestry of “biletejo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantobiletoticket; a piece of paper money, bill, banknote
2Frenchbilletticket; note, a brief message; banknote
3Old Frenchbillettebillet
4Old Frenchbillestick; baton; written decree, announcement
5Vulgar Latinbillia—
6Gaulishbiliatall tree
7Proto-Celticbelyomtree
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰolh₃yomleaf
9Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰleh₃-bloom, flower
10Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
11Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—
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