Where does “cocho” come from?
cocho (Portuguese) comes from Spanish corcho, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.
cocho (Portuguese): trough
Ancestry of “cocho”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | corcho | cork |
| 2 | Latin | cortex | The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | *(s)kort-ek-s | — |