Where does “umettativo” come from?

umettativo (Italian) comes from Italian -ivo, from Latin -īvus, from Proto-Indo-European -iHwós, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.

umettativo (Italian): moistening, humectant

Definitions

  1. moistening, humectant

Ancestry of “umettativo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-ivoUsed with a stem to form the first-person...
2Latin-īvusAdjective suffix
3Proto-Indo-European-iHwós—
4Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wós →Every word from Latin -īvus →Every word from Italian -ivo →
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