Where does “quisquam” come from?
quisquam (Latin) comes from Latin -quam, from Latin quam, from Proto-Italic kʷoi, from Proto-Indo-European kʷós — who.
quisquam (Latin): anyone; anything
Ancestry of “quisquam”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | -quam | — |
| 2 | Latin | quam | in what way, to what degree; how, how much, as... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | kʷoi | who, what |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷós | who |