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Where does “corran” come from?

corran (Galician) comes from Galician correr, from Old Portuguese correr, from Latin currō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.

corran (Galician): third-person plural present subjunctive of correr

Definitions

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of correr

Ancestry of “corran”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galiciancorrerto run
2Old Portuguesecorrer—
3Latincurrō—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanḱer-to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeankr̥-to turn, to bend
6Proto-Indo-Europeanker-army
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