Where does “bokalo” come from?

bokalo (Esperanto) comes from Italian boccale, from Italian -ale, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

bokalo (Esperanto): jar container

Definitions

  1. jar container

Ancestry of “bokalo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianboccalejug; mug; pannikin
2Italian-aleAdded to nouns to form adjectives; -al
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →
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