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Where does “salgueiro” come from?

salgueiro (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese salgueiro, from Vulgar Latin salicarius, from Latin salix, from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik-.

salgueiro (Galician): willow

Definitions

  1. willow

Ancestry of “salgueiro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesesalgueiro—
2Vulgar Latinsalicarius—
3Latinsalixwillow; a willow branch
4Proto-Indo-European*sl̥H-ik-—
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