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Where does “sorba” come from?
sorba (Italian) comes from Latin sorbus, from Indo-European *ser-.
sorba
(Italian): rowan
Definitions
rowan
Ancestry of “sorba”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
sorbus
sorb; service tree; "Sorbus domestica"
2
Indo-European
*ser-
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Words derived from “sorba”
sorbino
Every word from Indo-European *ser- →
Every word from Latin sorbus →