Where does “umo” come from?

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

umo (Esperanto): something for which one does not know or cannot...

Definitions

  1. something for which one does not know or cannot...

Ancestry of “umo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperanto-um-related in an unspecific way
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Esperanto -um- →