Where does “punktokomo” come from?
punktokomo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto punkto, from Russian пункт, from Polish punkt, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
punktokomo (Esperanto): semicolon
Definitions
- semicolon
Ancestry of “punktokomo”, step by step
punktokomo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto punkto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | punkto | point |
| 2 | Russian | пункт | point; point, station |
| 3 | Polish | punkt | dot; point; spot |
| 4 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 5 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Esperanto komo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | komo | comma punctuation |
| 2 | English | comma | The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set... |
| 3 | German | Komma | comma |
| 4 | Spanish | coma | comma; misericord; section |
| 5 | Latin | comma | a caesura |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κόμμα | a stamp or impression of a coin, coinage; that... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κόπτω | strike; cut; shake |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kep- | to grave, to strike; to chop, to dig; to grave,... |