Where does “mafio” come from?

mafio (Piedmontese) comes from French mafflu, from French -u, from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mafio (Piedmontese): bumpkin, slout, boorish

Definitions

  1. bumpkin, slout, boorish

Ancestry of “mafio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmaffluchubby
2French-uForming adjectives having the sense of ‘having...
3Latin-utus—
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →