Where does “listo” come from?

listo (Esperanto) comes from English List, from French liste, from German līste, from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic līstōn.

listo (Esperanto): list

Definitions

  1. list

Ancestry of “listo”, step by step

listo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English List

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishListA strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth
2Frenchlistelist
3Germanlīstelist
4Italianlistalist, pile; strip, stripe; inflection of...
5Old High Germanlīsta—
6Proto-Germaniclīstōn—

via Proto-Germanic līstǭ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germaniclīstǭstrip; band; hem; selvage; list; edge; ledge
2Proto-Indo-Europeanleizdband, border

Words derived from “listo”

Every word from Proto-Germanic līstōn →Every word from Old High German līsta →Every word from Italian lista →