Where does “escaleira” come from?
escaleira (Galician) comes from Spanish escalera, from Old Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scalaria, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
escaleira (Galician): stairway; ladder
Ancestry of “escaleira”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | escalera | stairs; staircase, stairway; ladder |
| 2 | Old Spanish | escalera | stairway; steps, stairs |
| 3 | Late Latin | scalaria | nominative neuter plural of scālāris; accusative... |
| 4 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 5 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |