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Where does “arrecho” come from?

arrecho (Spanish) comes from Latin arrectus, from Latin arrigo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

arrecho (Spanish): horny, randy; erect, hard; angry, pissed off

Definitions

  1. horny, randy; erect, hard; angry, pissed off

Ancestry of “arrecho”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinarrectuserect, perpendicular, upright, steep
2LatinarrigoI raise, erect; I encourage, animate, rouse,...
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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