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Where does “rana” come from?

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

rana (Esperanto): Of, relating to or similar to frogs; frogly

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to or similar to frogs; frogly

Ancestry of “rana”, step by step

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