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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

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

Words derived from “ajo”

  • ajoene
  • ajete
  • ajillo
  • ajiaceite
  • ajos
  • ahos
  • ahiti
  • ako
  • ajo
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