Where does “numerus” come from?

numerus (Finnish) comes from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

numerus (Finnish): grammatical number

Definitions

  1. grammatical number

Ancestry of “numerus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
2Proto-Italicnomezos—
3Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →Every word from Proto-Italic nomezos →Every word from Latin numerus →
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