Where does “fumeiro” come from?
fumeiro (Galician) comes from Galician fume, from Old Portuguese fumo, from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European dʰuh₂mós, from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂- — smoke; mist, haze.
fumeiro (Galician): smokery; structure, facility or room used to smoke meat, fish, or cheese
Definitions
- smokery; structure, facility or room used to smoke meat, fish, or cheese
Ancestry of “fumeiro”, step by step
fumeiro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician fume
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | fume | smoke; fume; haughtiness |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | fumo | — |
| 3 | Latin | fūmus | smoke, steam, fume |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | fūmos | smoke |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰuh₂mós | smoke |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
via Latin fūmārium
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | fūmārium | a fumarium smoke chamber used for maturing wine |
| 2 | Latin | -ārium | used primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end |
| 3 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |