Where does “pintumo” come from?

pintumo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto -um-, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

pintumo (Esperanto): punch line final part of a joke intended to be funny

Definitions

  1. punch line final part of a joke intended to be funny

Ancestry of “pintumo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperanto-um-related in an unspecific way
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Esperanto -um- →