Where does “kalkanumo” come from?

kalkanumo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto -um-, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

kalkanumo (Esperanto): heel of a shoe

Definitions

  1. heel of a shoe

Ancestry of “kalkanumo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperanto-um-related in an unspecific way
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Esperanto -um- →
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