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Where does “angustiare” come from?

angustiare (Italian) comes from Latin angustio, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

angustiare (Italian): to torment, distress, worry

Definitions

  1. to torment, distress, worry

Ancestry of “angustiare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinangustioI make narrow, straiten, compress, narrow; I...
2Latin-iō—
3Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
6Chichewaiyehe, she

Words derived from “angustiare”

  • angustio
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