Where does “amortiguador” come from?

amortiguador (Spanish) comes from Spanish -dor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

amortiguador (Spanish): softening, muffling

Definitions

  1. softening, muffling

Ancestry of “amortiguador”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanish-dorForms nouns and adjectives from verbs. The vowel...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Spanish -dor →