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Where does “prōmūtuor” come from?

prōmūtuor (Latin) comes from Latin promutuum, from Latin promutuus, from Latin mūtuus, from Latin muto, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Ancestry of “prōmūtuor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpromutuuman advance, loan
2Latinpromutuuspaid beforehand; advanced, lent in advance
3Latinmūtuus—
4LatinmutoI move, remove; I alter, change, modify,...
5Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
6Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
7Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
8Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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