Where does “barreiro” come from?

barreiro (Galician) comes from Galician -eiro, from Galician esca, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend- — to jump up, ascend.

barreiro (Galician): slough; clay pit; cliff, drop, ravine

Definitions

  1. slough; clay pit; cliff, drop, ravine

Ancestry of “barreiro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galician-eiro-er; -eer; forms nouns, from nouns denoting a...
2Galicianescatinder; bait
3Latinscālaladder
4Latinscanderethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
5Latinscandōto climb, ascend, mount
6Proto-Indo-Europeansḱend-to jump up, ascend
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sḱend- →Every word from Latin scandō →Every word from Latin scandere →