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Where does “sapo” come from?

sapo (Late Latin) comes from Proto-Germanic saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European seyb- — to pour, leak, trickle; to pour out, trickle,...

sapo (Late Latin): soap

Definitions

  1. soap

Ancestry of “sapo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicsaipǭsoap
2Proto-Indo-Europeanseyb-to pour, leak, trickle; to pour out, trickle,...
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