Where does “exuvia” come from?

exuvia (Latin) comes from Latin exuo, from Latin ēx-, from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.

exuvia (Latin): spoils, booty; skin of a snake etc. sloughed off;...

Definitions

  1. spoils, booty; skin of a snake etc. sloughed off;...

Ancestry of “exuvia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinexuoto extract, take out, draw out, pull off
2Latinēx-out, away
3Proto-Indo-Europeaneǵ-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European eǵ- →Every word from Latin ēx- →Every word from Latin exuo →