Where does “tegolo” come from?

tegolo (Esperanto) comes from Italian tegola, from Latin tēgula, from Latin tegō, from Proto-Italic tegō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- — to cover; pole, stick, beam.

tegolo (Esperanto): tile

Definitions

  1. tile

Ancestry of “tegolo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantegolatile
2Latintēgulaa large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex
3Latintegōto cover; to clothe
4Proto-Italictegōcover
5Proto-Indo-European(s)teg-to cover; pole, stick, beam
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- →Every word from Proto-Italic tegō →Every word from Latin tegō →