Where does “turgescent” come from?
turgescent (French) comes from Latin turgescens, from Latin turgesco, from Latin -sco, from Proto-Italic -skō, from Proto-Indo-European -sḱéti — Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...
turgescent (French): turgescent
Ancestry of “turgescent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | turgescens | |
| 2 | Latin | turgesco | I swell up, begin to swell |
| 3 | Latin | -sco | Forms inchoative verbs from existing verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -skō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -sḱéti | Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs... |