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Where does “pulo” come from?

pulo (Esperanto) comes from Latin pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plus-.

pulo (Esperanto): flea

Definitions

  1. flea

Ancestry of “pulo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpūlex—
2Proto-Indo-European*plus-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *plus- →