Where does “pa” come from?

pa (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese paa, from Latin palam, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂- — flat.

pa (Galician): shovel; spade tool for digging and moving material

Definitions

  1. shovel; spade tool for digging and moving material

Ancestry of “pa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesepaa—
2Latinpalamwithout concealment, openly, publicly,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₂-flat
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂- →Every word from Latin palam →Every word from Old Portuguese paa →
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