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Where does “beber” come from?

beber (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese beber, from Latin bibere, from Latin bibō, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

beber (Galician): to drink

Definitions

  1. to drink

Ancestry of “beber”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesebeber—
2Latinbiberethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
3Latinbibō—
4Latin-ilis-ile
5Proto-Italic-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-elis—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “beber”

  • bebida
  • beben
  • bebemos
  • bebas
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →