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Where does “oreille-de-mer” come from?
oreille-de-mer (French) comes from Latin auris, from Proto-Italic *auzis — ear.
Ancestry of “oreille-de-mer”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
auris
ear; dative/ablative plural of aura
2
Proto-Italic
*auzis
ear
Words derived from “oreille-de-mer”
ormier
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