Where does “limero” come from?

limero (Seychellois Creole) comes from French numéro, from Italian numero, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

limero (Seychellois Creole): number

Definitions

  1. number

Ancestry of “limero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnuméronumber; phone number
2Italiannumeronumber; numeral, figure, digit; sketch; short and...
3Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
4Proto-Italicnomezos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →Every word from Proto-Italic nomezos →Every word from Latin numerus →