Where does “limoeiro” come from?

limoeiro (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.

limoeiro (Galician): lemon tree

Definitions

  1. lemon tree

Ancestry of “limoeiro”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-Every word from Latin scandōEvery word from Latin scandere