Where does “mucca” come from?

mucca (Italian) comes from Italian vacca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂-.

mucca (Italian): a milk-cow, milch cow

Definitions

  1. a milk-cow, milch cow

Ancestry of “mucca”, step by step

mucca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian vacca

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianvaccacow; whore, slut
2Latinvaccacow
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwokeh₂-—

via Italian muggire

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianmuggireTo low or moo
2Latinmūgiōto moo, low, bellow
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmūg-—

Words derived from “mucca”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂- →Every word from Latin vacca →Every word from Italian vacca →