Where does “number” come from?

number (Estonian) comes from German Nummer, from German Numero, from Italian numero, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

number (Estonian): number

Definitions

  1. number

Ancestry of “number”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanNummernumber; issue; size
2GermanNumero—
3Italiannumeronumber; numeral, figure, digit; sketch; short and...
4Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
5Proto-Italicnomezos—
6Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—

Words derived from “number”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →Every word from Proto-Italic nomezos →Every word from Latin numerus →
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