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Where does “legalmente” come from?

legalmente (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese legal, from Latin lēgālis, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

legalmente (Portuguese): legally

Definitions

  1. legally

Ancestry of “legalmente”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueselegallegal; cool, nice, good
2Latinlēgālis—
3Latinlēx—
4Proto-Italiclēg-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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