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Where does “reachtóireacht” come from?

reachtóireacht (Irish) comes from Irish reachtóir, from Irish -óir, from Old Irish -óir, from Proto-Brythonic -ọr, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.

reachtóireacht (Irish): lawmaking

Definitions

  1. lawmaking

Ancestry of “reachtóireacht”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Irishreachtóirlawgiver, legislator; second-person singular...
2Irish-óir-er; suffix appended to words to create an agent...
3Old Irish-óir—
4Proto-Brythonic-ọr—
5Latin-ārius—
6Proto-Italic*-āzios—
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