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Where does “sileō” come from?

sileō (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European seyl- — still, windless, quiet, slow; to be silent.

Ancestry of “sileō”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanseyl-still, windless, quiet, slow; to be silent
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