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Where does “ubiquità” come from?

ubiquità (Italian) comes from Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubique, from Latin -que, from Proto-Italic -kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

Ancestry of “ubiquità”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinubīquitās—
2Latinubiqueeverywhere
3Latin-queand, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...
4Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
5Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
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