Where does “jenou” come from?

jenou (Haitian Creole) comes from French genou, from Old French genoil, from Latin genuculum, from Latin geniculum, from Latin -culus, from Proto-Italic *-kelos — Diminutive suffix.

jenou (Haitian Creole): knee

Definitions

  1. knee

Ancestry of “jenou”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchgenouknee; lap
2Old Frenchgenoilknee
3Latingenuculumknee
4Latingeniculumknee; little knot
5Latin-culusAlternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
6Proto-Italic*-kelosDiminutive suffix
Every word from Proto-Italic *-kelos →Every word from Latin -culus →Every word from Latin geniculum →