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Where does “legura” come from?

legura (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian legatura, from Latin ligātura, from Latin ligātus, from Latin ligō, from Proto-Indo-European leyǵ- — to bind, tie.

legura (Serbo-Croatian): alloy

Definitions

  1. alloy

Ancestry of “legura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianlegaturabinding; ligature; logotype
2Latinligātura—
3Latinligātus—
4Latinligō—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanleyǵ-to bind, tie
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