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Where does “lakot” come from?

lakot (Seychellois Creole) comes from French Côte, from Middle French costé, from Old French costé, from Latin costātus, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European kost-.

lakot (Seychellois Creole): coast

Definitions

  1. coast

Ancestry of “lakot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchCôte—
2Middle Frenchcostéside
3Old Frenchcostéside
4Latincostātus—
5Latincostaa rib; a side, a wall
6Proto-Indo-Europeankost-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European kost- →