Where does “sapoconcho” come from?
sapoconcho (Galician) comes from Galician concho, from Galician cuncha, from Vulgar Latin concla, from Latin conchula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
sapoconcho (Galician): turtle, tortoise
Ancestry of “sapoconcho”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Galician | concho | husk, hull; walnut; husked, shelled |
| 2 | Galician | cuncha | shell; pendentive; white long mark in the head of... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | concla | — |
| 4 | Latin | conchula | small mollusk, mussel, oyster |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |