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Where does “inpierno” come from?

inpierno (Hiligaynon) comes from Spanish infierno, from Old Spanish infierno, from Latin īnfernum, from Proto-Italic *enðernom, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér.

inpierno (Hiligaynon): hell; place of religious damnation

Definitions

  1. hell; place of religious damnation

Ancestry of “inpierno”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishinfiernohell
2Old SpanishinfiernoSheol, the Hebrew term for the underworld; hell
3Latinīnfernum—
4Proto-Italic*enðernom—
5Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér—
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