Where does “genuo” come from?

genuo (Ido) comes from Esperanto genuo, from French genou, from Old French genoil, from Latin genuculum, from Latin geniculum, from Latin -culus, from Proto-Italic *-kelos — Diminutive suffix.

genuo (Ido): knee

Definitions

  1. knee

Ancestry of “genuo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantogenuoknee
2Frenchgenouknee; lap
3Old Frenchgenoilknee
4Latingenuculumknee
5Latingeniculumknee; little knot
6Latin-culusAlternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
7Proto-Italic*-kelosDiminutive suffix
Every word from Proto-Italic *-kelos →Every word from Latin -culus →Every word from Latin geniculum →