Where does “لام” come from?

لام (Persian) comes from French lamé, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

لام (Persian): 27th letter in the Persian alphabet (ل)

Definitions

  1. 27th letter in the Persian alphabet (ل)

Ancestry of “لام”, step by step

لام traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French lamé

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlamépast participle of lamer
2French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
3Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
4Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via Arabic لاَم

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicلاَم—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from French -é →