Where does “cuellu” come from?

cuellu (Fala) comes from Spanish cuello, from Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cuellu (Fala): rabbit

Definitions

  1. rabbit

Ancestry of “cuellu”, step by step

cuellu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish cuello

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcuelloneck; collar
2Old Spanishcuelloneck
3Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
4Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Portuguese coelho

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesecoelhorabbit
2Latincunīculusa rabbit
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from Latin -isEvery word from Latin -a