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Where does “zanca” come from?

zanca (Galician) comes from Latin zancha — a kind of soft Parthian shoe.

zanca (Galician): leg; thigh; hip; a large extension of walled...

Definitions

  1. leg; thigh; hip; a large extension of walled...

Ancestry of “zanca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinzanchaa kind of soft Parthian shoe
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