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Where does “suroeste” come from?

suroeste (Galician) comes from Galician oeste, from French ouest, from Middle French ouest, from Old French west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic westrą, from Proto-Germanic westraz.

suroeste (Galician): southwest

Definitions

  1. southwest

Ancestry of “suroeste”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianoestewest; the western portion of a territory or...
2Frenchouestwest
3Middle Frenchouest—
4Old Frenchwestwest
5Old Englishwestwest
6Proto-West Germanic*westr—
7Proto-Germanicwestrąwest; west, westward
8Proto-Germanicwestrazwest, western
9Proto-Indo-Europeanwek(ʷ)sperosevening
10Proto-Indo-Europeanwe-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European we- →