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Where does “flavulo” come from?

flavulo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto flava, from Latin flāvus, from Latin palpus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

flavulo (Esperanto): a person of yellowish skin color, an Oriental...

Definitions

  1. a person of yellowish skin color, an Oriental...

Ancestry of “flavulo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoflavayellow yellow colour
2Latinflāvus—
3Latinpalpuspalm of the hand; feeler
4Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
5Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
6Proto-Italic-os—
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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