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Where does “cascalho” come from?

cascalho (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese casca, from Latin quassicare, from Latin quassico, from Latin -ico, from Latin -o, from Proto-Italic -ōd, from Proto-Indo-European -éad.

cascalho (Portuguese): gravel; money, cash

Definitions

  1. gravel; money, cash

Ancestry of “cascalho”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesecascaskin; peel; rind; bark; shell
2Latinquassicarepresent active infinitive of *quassicō
3LatinquassicoI hit, strike
4Latin-icoforms regular first-conjugation verbs, sometimes...
5Latin-oforms masculine agent nouns, positive and...
6Proto-Italic-ōd—
7Proto-Indo-European-éad—

Words derived from “cascalho”

  • cascalho
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éad →