Where does “quale” come from?
quale (Ido) comes from Ido quala, from French quel, from Middle French quel, from Old French quel, from Latin quālis, from Proto-Indo-European kʷō-.
quale (Ido): how, as, like
Ancestry of “quale”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ido | quala | what sort of, what kind of, what a, like |
| 2 | French | quel | which; what |
| 3 | Middle French | quel | which |
| 4 | Old French | quel | which |
| 5 | Latin | quālis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷō- | — |