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Where does “len” come from?

len (Galician) comes from Galician ler, from Old Portuguese leer, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

len (Galician): third-person plural present indicative of ler

Definitions

  1. third-person plural present indicative of ler

Ancestry of “len”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianlerto read
2Old Portugueseleer—
3Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
4Latinlegō—
5Latinlēx—
6Proto-Italiclēg-—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
8Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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