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Where does “polekso” come from?

polekso (Esperanto) comes from Latin pollex — thumb; great toe; a unit of distance, equivalent...

polekso (Esperanto): thumb

Definitions

  1. thumb

Ancestry of “polekso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpollexthumb; great toe; a unit of distance, equivalent...
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