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Where does “vosso” come from?

vosso (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese vosso, from Latin vossus, from Latin voster, from Latin vester, from Proto-Italic westeros, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.

vosso (Portuguese): Second-person plural possessive pronoun

Definitions

  1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun

Ancestry of “vosso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesevosso—
2Latinvossus—
3LatinvosterAlternative form of vester; your, plural...
4Latinvesteryour, yours, of you
5Proto-Italicwesterosyour
6Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix
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