Where does “lagarteiro” come from?

lagarteiro (Galician) comes from Galician -eiro, from Galician esca, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend- — to jump up, ascend.

lagarteiro (Galician): kestrel, common kestrel

Definitions

  1. kestrel, common kestrel

Ancestry of “lagarteiro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galician-eiro-er; -eer; forms nouns, from nouns denoting a...
2Galicianescatinder; bait
3Latinscālaladder
4Latinscanderethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
5Latinscandōto climb, ascend, mount
6Proto-Indo-Europeansḱend-to jump up, ascend
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