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Where does “sovaĝa” come from?

sovaĝa (Esperanto) comes from French sauvage, from Old French sauvage, from Vulgar Latin salvaticus, from Latin silvāticus, from Latin -aticus, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.

sovaĝa (Esperanto): wild, savage, ferocious

Definitions

  1. wild, savage, ferocious

Ancestry of “sovaĝa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsauvagewild, untamed; Amerindian; an Amerindian language
2Old Frenchsauvagewild; untamed
3Vulgar Latinsalvaticus—
4Latinsilvāticus—
5Latin-aticusUsed to form adjectives indicating a relation to...
6Latin-ātus—
7Proto-Italic-ātos—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—

Words derived from “sovaĝa”

  • malsovaĝa
  • malsovaĝigi
  • sovaĝe
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