Where does “vori” come from?
vori (Esperanto) comes from Latin eboreus, from Latin ebur, from Demotic yb, from Egyptian ꜣbw, from Egyptian ꜣb, from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-.
vori (Esperanto): to devour, to consume
Ancestry of “vori”, step by step
vori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin eboreus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | eboreus | ivory |
| 2 | Latin | ebur | ivory; a thing made of ivory; an elephant |
| 3 | Demotic | yb | ivory, Elephantine |
| 4 | Egyptian | ꜣbw | cessation; elephant; elephant tusk |
| 5 | Egyptian | ꜣb | to stop, to take a break; to cease or stop; to... |
| 6 | Proto-Afroasiatic | *leb- | — |
via Latin vorō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | vorō | to devour; to eat greedily |
| 2 | Latin | voto | dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | wetā(je)- | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | weth₂- | to say |
Words derived from “vori”