Where does “fémur” come from?

fémur (Galician) comes from Latin femur, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ — arc, bow.

fémur (Galician): femur

Definitions

  1. femur

Ancestry of “fémur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfemurthigh; the space between the grooves of a...
2Proto-Indo-European*dʰénwr̥arc, bow
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