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Where does “falen” come from?

falen (Galician) comes from Galician falar, from Old Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulor, from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

falen (Galician): third-person plural present subjunctive of falar

Definitions

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of falar

Ancestry of “falen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianfalarto speak, to talk; to talk to; to speak to one...
2Old Portuguesefalar—
3Latinfābulor—
4Latinfābula—
5Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
6Proto-Italic-olos—
7Proto-Italic-elos—
8Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
9Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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