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Where does “frangō” come from?

frangō (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- — to shine, shimmer.

Ancestry of “frangō”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer
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