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Where does “plezuri” come from?

plezuri (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto plezuro, from Esperanto -a, from Italian -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

plezuri (Esperanto): to pleasure, to please

Definitions

  1. to pleasure, to please

Ancestry of “plezuri”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoplezuropleasure
2Esperanto-aRelated to, in the manner of, of; Belonging to,...
3Italian-aUsed, with a stem, to form the third-person...
4Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
5Proto-Italic-ā—
6Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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