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Where does “sēsqui-” come from?

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

Ancestry of “sēsqui-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-queand, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...
2Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
3Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
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