Where does “fusta” come from?
fusta (Portuguese) comes from Latin fusta, from Latin fūstis, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
fusta (Portuguese): fust
Ancestry of “fusta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | fusta | beam |
| 2 | Latin | fūstis | — |
| 3 | Latin | -ārium | — |
| 4 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |