Where does “somero” come from?
somero (Ido) comes from Esperanto somero, from English Summer, from English sum, from Khmer ស, from Chinese 蘇, from English Sue, from Middle English seuen, from Anglo-Norman suer — to follow; to see; to say.
somero (Ido): summer
Ancestry of “somero”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | somero | summer |
| 2 | English | Summer | — |
| 3 | English | sum | A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation;... |
| 4 | Khmer | ស | white |
| 5 | Chinese | 蘇 | — |
| 6 | English | Sue | A Mary Sue |
| 7 | Middle English | seuen | — |
| 8 | Anglo-Norman | suer | nominative singular of seror; to dry |
| 9 | Old French | sivre | to follow |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | sequere | to follow; second-person singular future active... |
| 11 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |