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Where does “vallare” come from?

vallare (Italian) comes from Latin vallare, from Latin vallum, from Proto-Indo-European wēl-.

Ancestry of “vallare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvallarepresent active infinitive of vāllō; second-person...
2Latinvallumwall, rampart, entrenchment
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwēl-—

Words derived from “vallare”

  • contravvallazione
  • controvallazione
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