Where does “massella” come from?
massella (Italian) comes from Italian massellare, from Italian massello, from Italian -ello, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
massella (Italian): third-person singular present indicative of...
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- third-person singular present indicative of...
Ancestry of “massella”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | massellare | To cast into pigs or ingots |
| 2 | Italian | massello | — |
| 3 | Italian | -ello | Alterative suffix used to form... |
| 4 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |