Where does “umilo” come from?

umilo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto umi, from Esperanto -um-, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

umilo (Esperanto): a tool whose purpose is unspecified or dubious; gadget; thingamajig

Definitions

  1. a tool whose purpose is unspecified or dubious; gadget; thingamajig

Ancestry of “umilo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoumito do something, perform some sort of action
2Esperanto-um-related in an unspecific way
3Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
4Proto-Italic*-om—
5Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Esperanto -um- →