Where does “dubi” come from?
dubi (Esperanto) comes from Latin dubitō, from Latin dubō, from Latin *dubos, from Indo-European *bʰuH-.
dubi (Esperanto): to doubt; to question
Ancestry of “dubi”, step by step
dubi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin dubitō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | dubitō | to waver (in opinion), be uncertain, doubt, question, be in doubt |
| 2 | Latin | dubō | — |
| 3 | Latin | *dubos | — |
| 4 | Indo-European | *bʰuH- | — |
via Serbo-Croatian дубити
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | дубити | to hollow, carve |
| 2 | Proto-Slavic | dьlbiti | to hollow, chisel |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰlbʰ- | — |
Words derived from “dubi”