Where does “uvulă” come from?

uvulă (Romanian) comes from French uvule, from Latin ūvula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

uvulă (Romanian): uvula

Definitions

  1. uvula

Ancestry of “uvulă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchuvuleuvula
2Latinūvula—
3Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
4Proto-Italic-olos—
5Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
6Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
7Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ulus →Every word from Latin ūvula →