Where does “peliqueiro” come from?
peliqueiro (Galician) comes from Galician pelica, from Galician -eiro, from Galician esca, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend- — to jump up, ascend.
peliqueiro (Galician): tanner; place used for drying hides; a sheepskin...
Definitions
- tanner; place used for drying hides; a sheepskin...
Ancestry of “peliqueiro”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | pelica | hide, pelt; sheepskin used, in the past, to... |
| 2 | Galician | -eiro | -er; -eer; forms nouns, from nouns denoting a... |
| 3 | Galician | esca | tinder; bait |
| 4 | Latin | scāla | ladder |
| 5 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |