Where does “velară” come from?

velară (Romanian) comes from French vélaire, from Latin vēlāris, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

velară (Romanian): velar

Definitions

  1. velar

Ancestry of “velară”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvélairevelar
2Latinvēlārisof or relating to cloths, veils or curtains
3Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
4Latin-ālis
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis