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Where does “lito” come from?

lito (Esperanto) comes from French lit, from Old French lit, from Latin lēctus, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

lito (Esperanto): bed

Definitions

  1. bed

Ancestry of “lito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlitbed; third-person singular present indicative of...
2Old Frenchlitbed
3Latinlēctus—
4Latinlegō—
5Latinlēx—
6Proto-Italiclēg-—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
8Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Words derived from “lito”

  • litkovrilo
  • ellitiĝi
  • enlitiĝi
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