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Where does “*puhô” come from?

*puhô (Proto-Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European bew- — "low-pitch humming noise".

Ancestry of “*puhô”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanbew-"low-pitch humming noise"
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