Where does “genuo” come from?

genuo (Esperanto) comes from French genou, from Old French genoil, from Latin genuculum, from Latin geniculum, from Latin -culus, from Proto-Italic *-kelos.

genuo (Esperanto): knee

Definitions

knee

Ancestry of “genuo”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	genou	knee; lap
2	Old French	genoil	knee
3	Latin	genuculum	—
4	Latin	geniculum	knee; little knot
5	Latin	-culus	Alternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
6	Proto-Italic	*-kelos	—

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