Where does “skvamo” come from?

skvamo (Esperanto) comes from French squame, from Old French eschame, from Latin squāma, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewH- — to cover, bedeck; cover.

skvamo (Esperanto): scale

Definitions

  1. scale

Ancestry of “skvamo”, step by step

skvamo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French squame

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsquamescale
2Old Frencheschamebench; scale
3Latinsquāmascale (of a fish or reptile)
4Proto-Indo-European(s)kewH-to cover, bedeck; cover

via Italian squama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansquamascale; squama; third-person singular present...

Words derived from “skvamo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewH- →Every word from Latin squāma →Every word from Old French eschame →