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Where does “pedreiro” come from?

pedreiro (Galician) comes from Galician -eiro, from Galician esca, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.

pedreiro (Galician): stonemason; landmark

Definitions

  1. stonemason; landmark

Ancestry of “pedreiro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galician-eiro-er; -eer; forms nouns, from nouns denoting a...
2Galicianescatinder; bait
3Latinscāla—
4Latinscanderethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
5Latinscandō—
6Proto-Indo-Europeansḱend-—
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