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Where does “plerumque” come from?

plerumque (Latin) comes from Latin plerusque, from Latin -que, from Proto-Italic -kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

Ancestry of “plerumque”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinplerusquemost, very many, most of, the greater larger...
2Latin-queand, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...
3Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
4Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
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