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Where does “stira” come from?

stira (Italian) comes from Italian stirare, from Italian s-, from Latin ēx-, from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.

stira (Italian): third-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “stira”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianstirareto iron; to stretch
2Italians-un-, in-; de-, dis-, un-; API + bocca → sboccato
3Latinēx-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeaneǵ-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European eǵ- →