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Where does “trajto” come from?

trajto (Esperanto) comes from French trait, from Old French trait, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ- — to run.

trajto (Esperanto): trait, attribute, lineament

Definitions

  1. trait, attribute, lineament

Ancestry of “trajto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtraitline; trait; color of a mineral
2Old Frenchtrait—
3Latintractusdragged, having been dragged; trailed, having...
4Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
5LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
6Proto-Italictraɣō—
7Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
8Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run
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