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Where does “pintai” come from?

pintai (French) comes from French pinter, from French pinte, from Vulgar Latin pincta, from Latin Pictus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

pintai (French): first-person singular past historic of pinter

Definitions

  1. first-person singular past historic of pinter

Ancestry of “pintai”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchpinterTo get drunk
2FrenchpinteA French-Canadian term for an Imperial quart,...
3Vulgar Latinpinctaa mark used to indicate a level of quantity...
4LatinPictus—
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →