Where does “merkado” come from?

merkado (Ladino) comes from Latin mercatus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

merkado (Ladino): market

Definitions

  1. market

Ancestry of “merkado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmercatustrade, traffic, buying and selling; market,...
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mercatus →