Where does “valvolame” come from?

valvolame (Italian) comes from Italian -ame, from Latin -amen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

valvolame (Italian): valves

Definitions

  1. valves

Ancestry of “valvolame”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-amefoglia + API → fogliame; bestia + API →...
2Latin-amen—
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Italian -ame →
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