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Where does “tavan” come from?

tavan (Friulian) comes from Latin tabanus — gadfly, horsefly.

tavan (Friulian): horsefly

Definitions

  1. horsefly

Ancestry of “tavan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintabanusgadfly, horsefly
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