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Where does “ġepos” come from?

ġepos (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic pusą, from Proto-Germanic pusōną, from Finnish pus-, from Proto-Indo-European bew- — "low-pitch humming noise".

ġepos (Old English): a sneeze, snort; sneeze, snort

Definitions

  1. a sneeze, snort; sneeze, snort

Ancestry of “ġepos”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicpusąsneeze, snort
2Proto-Germanicpusōną—
3Finnishpus-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbew-"low-pitch humming noise"

Words derived from “ġepos”

  • pose
  • posing
  • poser
  • superpose
  • counterpose
  • posey
  • superposable
  • posable
  • poseable
  • posest
  • superposability
  • poseth
  • sepose
  • posingly
  • poserish
  • retroposable
  • poselet
  • multipose
  • pose
  • geposu
  • ġeposu
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