Where does “scrotal” come from?

scrotal (Romanian) comes from French scrotal, from French scrotum, from Latin scrotum, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.

scrotal (Romanian): scrotal

Definitions

  1. scrotal

Ancestry of “scrotal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchscrotalscrotal
2Frenchscrotumscrotum
3Latinscrotumscrotum
4Proto-Indo-European(s)ker-to cut off; to turn, bend
5Proto-Indo-Europeansek-to cut, cut off, sever
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sek- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker- →Every word from Latin scrotum →
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