Where does “Rizzuto” come from?

Rizzuto (Italian) comes from Sicilian rizzutu, from Sicilian -utu, from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Ancestry of “Rizzuto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sicilianrizzutu—
2Sicilian-utuused with a stem to form the past participle of regular
3Latin-utus—
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →