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Where does “frakasi” come from?

frakasi (Esperanto) comes from French fracasser, from Italian fracassare, from Latin infra, from Latin īnferā, from French inférer, from Latin īnferō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

frakasi (Esperanto): to shatter, break to pieces

Definitions

  1. to shatter, break to pieces

Ancestry of “frakasi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfracasserto smash
2ItalianfracassareTo smash or shatter
3Latininfrabelow
4Latinīnferā—
5Frenchinférerto infer
6Latinīnferō—
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →