Where does “ova” come from?
ova (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto -a, from Italian -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
ova (Esperanto): related or pertaining to eggs; egg
Definitions
- related or pertaining to eggs; egg
Ancestry of “ova”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | -a | Related to, in the manner of, of; Belonging to,... |
| 2 | Italian | -a | Used, with a stem, to form the third-person... |
| 3 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |