Where does “novjartago” come from?
novjartago (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto novjaro, from Esperanto nov-, from Esperanto nova, from English novel, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, from Latin novellus, from Latin -ellus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
novjartago (Esperanto): New Year's Day
Ancestry of “novjartago”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | novjaro | New Year |
| 2 | Esperanto | nov- | new |
| 3 | Esperanto | nova | new |
| 4 | English | novel | Newly made, formed or evolved; having no... |
| 5 | Italian | novella | feminine singular of novello; tale, story, short... |
| 6 | Latin | novella | a newly planted vine or shoot; nominative... |
| 7 | Latin | novellus | new, young, fresh; novel, newly made |
| 8 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |