Where does “gliro” come from?

gliro (Esperanto) comes from Latin glis, from Proto-Indo-European *gley-.

gliro (Esperanto): dormouse

Definitions

  1. dormouse

Ancestry of “gliro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinglisdormouse; A tenacious kind of earth
2Proto-Indo-European*gley-—
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