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Where does “frelete” come from?

frelete (Middle English) comes from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitas, from Latin -tās, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ts, from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

Ancestry of “frelete”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfraileté—
2Latinfragilitasbrittleness, fragility; weakness, frailness
3Latin-tās—
4Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
5Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
6Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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