Where does “cou” come from?

cou (French) comes from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cou (French): neck

Definitions

  1. neck

Ancestry of “cou”, step by step

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

Words derived from “cou”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -is →Every word from Latin -a →