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Where does “ébouer” come from?

ébouer (French) comes from French é-, from Old French es-, from Latin ēx-, from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.

ébouer (French): to clean up

Definitions

  1. to clean up

Ancestry of “ébouer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenché-prefix indicating away, moving away from
2Old Frenches-indicates movement away or separation; variant of...
3Latinēx-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeaneǵ-—

Words derived from “ébouer”

  • éboueur
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