Where does “zonou” come from?

zonou (Réunion Creole French) comes from French genou, from Old French genoil, from Latin genuculum, from Latin geniculum, from Latin -culus, from Proto-Italic *-kelos — Diminutive suffix.

zonou (Réunion Creole French): knee

Definitions

  1. knee

Ancestry of “zonou”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchgenouknee; lap
2Old Frenchgenoilknee
3Latingenuculumknee
4Latingeniculumknee; little knot
5Latin-culusAlternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
6Proto-Italic*-kelosDiminutive suffix
Every word from Proto-Italic *-kelos →Every word from Latin -culus →Every word from Latin geniculum →