Where does “suwiċida” come from?

suwiċida (Maltese) comes from Italian suicida, from Latin suī, from Latin suō, from Proto-Italic sūō, from Proto-Indo-European *syewH- — to sew.

suwiċida (Maltese): suicide

Definitions

  1. suicide

Ancestry of “suwiċida”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansuicidasuicidal; suicide; inflection of suicidare: ##...
2Latinsuīthe genitive of the reflexive pronoun meaning of himself, of herself, of itself, of themselves, one another, each other, etc
3Latinsuōto sew, stitch
4Proto-Italicsūōsew, stitch
5Proto-Indo-European*syewH-to sew
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *syewH- →Every word from Proto-Italic sūō →Every word from Latin suō →