Where does “plejmulto” come from?

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

plejmulto (Esperanto): majority

Definitions

  1. majority

Ancestry of “plejmulto”, step by step

plejmulto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Esperanto plej

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoplejmost
2Latinplūsmore; more of
3Old Latinplous—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanploh₁is-—

via Esperanto multo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantomultoa sizeable quantity or number
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ploh₁is- →Every word from Old Latin plous →Every word from Latin plūs →