Where does “cavalla” come from?

cavalla (Italian) comes from Latin caballa, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cavalla (Italian): mare; female equivalent of cavallo

Definitions

  1. mare; female equivalent of cavallo

Ancestry of “cavalla”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincaballamare
2Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
3Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “cavalla”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →