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Where does “vastare” come from?

vastare (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European weh₂st- — empty, wasted; empty; wasted.

Ancestry of “vastare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanweh₂st-empty, wasted; empty; wasted
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