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Where does “tèrēn” come from?

tèrēn (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French terrain, from Old French terrain, from Vulgar Latin terranum, from Latin terrenum, from Latin Terra, from Proto-Indo-European ters- — dry.

Ancestry of “tèrēn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchterrainground, landscape; field; lot, plot, parcel
2Old Frenchterrain—
3Vulgar Latinterranum—
4Latinterrenumnominative neuter singular of terrēnus;...
5LatinTerragoddess of the earth; the Earth itself; tierra ...
6Proto-Indo-Europeanters-dry

Words derived from “tèrēn”

  • terenac
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters- →