Where does “laktoglando” come from?

laktoglando (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto lakto, from Latin lacte, from Latin lac, from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts — milk.

laktoglando (Esperanto): mammary gland

Definitions

  1. mammary gland

Ancestry of “laktoglando”, step by step

laktoglando traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Esperanto lakto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantolaktomilk
2Latinlactemilk; ablative singular of lac
3Latinlacmilk; for something sweet, pleasant; milky juice
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵláktsmilk

via Esperanto glando

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoglandogland
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts →Every word from Latin lac →Every word from Latin lacte →