Where does “xintill” come from?

xintill (Maltese) comes from Italian scintilla, from Latin scintilla, from Proto-Indo-European ski-nto-, from Proto-Indo-European skey-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.

xintill (Maltese): sparkle

Definitions

  1. sparkle

Ancestry of “xintill”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianscintillaspark; third-person singular present of...
2Latinscintillaspark; glimmer
3Proto-Indo-Europeanski-nto-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanskey-to split, to dissect
5Proto-Indo-Europeansek-to cut, cut off, sever
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