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Where does “nigrulo” come from?

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

nigrulo (Esperanto): a person of dark brown skin color, black person,...

Definitions

  1. a person of dark brown skin color, black person,...

Ancestry of “nigrulo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantonigrablack
2LatinNiger—
3Proto-Indo-Europeannegʷ-bare, naked
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