Where does “tumula” come from?
tumula (Latin) comes from Latin tumulo, from Latin tumulus, from Latin tumeō, from Proto-Indo-European tūm-, from Proto-Indo-European tewh₂- — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
tumula (Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...
Definitions
- second-person singular present active imperative...
Ancestry of “tumula”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | tumulo | I cover with a mound; bury, inter, entomb |
| 2 | Latin | tumulus | A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock; A... |
| 3 | Latin | tumeō | to be swollen, turgid, distended, puffed out or inflated, to swell |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | tūm- | to grow; to swell, to increase; to swell, be... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |