Where does “mule” come from?

mule (Old French) comes from Latin mūla, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

mule (Old French): she-mule

Definitions

  1. she-mule

Ancestry of “mule”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmūlafemale mule, she-mule
2Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
3Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “mule”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →