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Where does “λίστα” come from?

λίστα (Greek) comes from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic līstōn.

λίστα (Greek): list

Definitions

  1. list

Ancestry of “λίστα”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianlistalist, pile; strip, stripe; inflection of...
2Old High Germanlīsta—
3Proto-Germaniclīstōn—
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