Where does “reinventar” come from?
reinventar (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese inventar, from Portuguese invento, from Latin inventum, from Latin invenio, from Latin venio, from Proto-Italic gʷenjō, from Proto-Indo-European gʷm̥yéti, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
reinventar (Portuguese): to reinvent
Ancestry of “reinventar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | inventar | to invent, devise; to imagine |
| 2 | Portuguese | invento | |
| 3 | Latin | inventum | invention; nominative neuter singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | invenio | I find; I discover, find out; I come upon |
| 5 | Latin | venio | I come; I approach |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | gʷenjō | to come |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷm̥yéti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |