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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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoplejmost
2Latinplūs—
3Old Latinplous—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanploh₁is-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ploh₁is- →