Where does “ajo” come from?

ajo (Spanish) comes from Latin allium, from Proto-Indo-European ālu-.

ajo (Spanish): garlic; profanity, curse word

Definitions

  1. garlic; profanity, curse word

Ancestry of “ajo”, step by step

ajo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin allium

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinalliumlate form of ālium
2Proto-Indo-Europeanālu-—

via Spanish carajo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcarajocock

Words derived from “ajo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ālu- →Every word from Latin allium →