Where does “trema” come from?

trema (Portuguese) comes from French tréma, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα, from Ancient Greek -μᾰ, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

trema (Portuguese): trema, a diacritic

Definitions

  1. trema, a diacritic

Ancestry of “trema”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtrémaa trema, a diaeresis mark
2Ancient Greekτρῆμαhole, aperture, perforation
3Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
4Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

Words derived from “trema”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →Every word from Ancient Greek -μᾰ →Every word from Ancient Greek τρῆμα →