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Where does “ψωμιέρα” come from?

ψωμιέρα (Greek) comes from Greek ψωμί, from Byzantine Greek ψωμίν, from Ancient Greek ψωμίον, from Ancient Greek ψωμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.

ψωμιέρα (Greek): breadbox

Definitions

  1. breadbox

Ancestry of “ψωμιέρα”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Greekψωμίbread; the financial means to sustain tolerable...
2Byzantine Greekψωμίν—
3Ancient Greekψωμίονsmall morsel
4Ancient Greekψωμόςmorsel, bit
5Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
6Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems
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