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Where does “genuālis” come from?
genuālis (New Latin) comes from Latin genū, from Proto-Indo-European ǵónu — knee.
Ancestry of “genuālis”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
genū
a knee, kneejoint, kneepan
2
Proto-Indo-European
ǵónu
knee
Words derived from “genuālis”
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