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Where does “uncini” come from?

uncini (Italian) comes from Italian uncinare, from Italian uncino, from Latin uncīnus, from Latin uncus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

uncini (Italian): second-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “uncini”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianuncinareTo hook
2Italianuncinohook; brace; first-person singular present...
3Latinuncīnus—
4Latinuncushook, barb; a hook used to drag criminals by the...
5Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
6Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
7Proto-Italic-os—
8Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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