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Where does “pratempa” come from?

pratempa (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto tempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European tempos, from Proto-Indo-European temp- — to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

pratempa (Esperanto): primeval

Definitions

  1. primeval

Ancestry of “pratempa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantotempotime; tense
2Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
4Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...
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