Where does “plej” come from?

plej (Esperanto) comes from Latin plūs, from Old Latin plous, from Proto-Indo-European ploh₁is-.

plej (Esperanto): most

Definitions

  1. most

Ancestry of “plej”, step by step

plej traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin plūs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinplūsmore; more of
2Old Latinplous—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanploh₁is-—

via Proto-Bahnaric plaj

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Bahnaricplajfruit
2Proto-Mon-Khmerpləjʔfruit

Words derived from “plej”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ploh₁is- →