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Where does “Galvani” come from?

Galvani (Italian) comes from Italian -i, from Latin -i, from Latin -ēs, from Proto-Indo-European h₁éy- — he, this.

Ancestry of “Galvani”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-iUsed with a stem to form the second-person...
2Latin-inominative/vocative masculine plural of -us;...
3Latin-ēs—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁éy-he, this
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁éy- →