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Where does “ynojo” come from?

ynojo (Old Spanish) comes from Latin genuculum, from Latin geniculum, from Latin -culus, from Proto-Italic *-kelos.

ynojo (Old Spanish): knee

Definitions

  1. knee

Ancestry of “ynojo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latingenuculum—
2Latingeniculumknee; little knot
3Latin-culusAlternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
4Proto-Italic*-kelos—
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