Where does “dobums” come from?
dobums (Latvian) comes from Latvian dobs, from Latvian dobus, from Proto-Baltic duob-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-.
dobums (Latvian): hollow; cavity
Ancestry of “dobums”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latvian | dobs | hollow |
| 2 | Latvian | dobus | accusative plural masculine form of dobs |
| 3 | Proto-Baltic | duob- | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰewb- | — |