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Where does “tumescens” come from?

tumescens (Latin) comes from Latin tumēscō, from Latin -sco, from Proto-Italic -skō, from Proto-Indo-European -sḱéti — Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...

Ancestry of “tumescens”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintumēscō—
2Latin-scoForms inchoative verbs from existing verbs,...
3Proto-Italic-skō—
4Proto-Indo-European-sḱétiForms durative or iterative imperfective verbs...
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