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Where does “fia” come from?

fia (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto fi-, from Esperanto fi, from French fi, from Latin fi, from Latin facio, from Proto-Italic fakjō, from Proto-Italic *θakjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁k-yé-ti — to do, put, place.

fia (Esperanto): shameful, ignoble; naughty

Definitions

  1. shameful, ignoble; naughty

Ancestry of “fia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantofi-shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty,...
2EsperantofiFor shame!
3Frenchfifaugh, fie, bah, pooh
4Latinfipah!, pooh!, foh!, bah!, an expression of...
5LatinfacioI do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,...
6Proto-Italicfakjōto make
7Proto-Italic*θakjō—
8Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁k-yé-ti—
9Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeh₁-to do, put, place
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