Where does “nigra” come from?

nigra (Esperanto) comes from Latin Niger, from Proto-Indo-European negʷ- — bare, naked.

nigra (Esperanto): black

Definitions

  1. black

Ancestry of “nigra”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinNigerA Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
2Proto-Indo-Europeannegʷ-bare, naked

Words derived from “nigra”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European negʷ- →Every word from Latin Niger →