Where does “avefría” come from?

avefría (Spanish) comes from Spanish frío, from Old Spanish frio, from Latin frīgidus, from Latin frīgeō, from Latin -eō, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

avefría (Spanish): lapwing bird belonging to the subfamily

Definitions

  1. lapwing bird belonging to the subfamily

Ancestry of “avefría”, step by step

avefría traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish frío

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishfríocold; cool; cold, coldness
2Old Spanishfrio
3Latinfrīgiduscold, cool, chilling, frigid
4Latinfrīgeōto be cold or chilly; freeze
5Latin-eō
6Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
7Proto-Italic-ējō
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
9Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

via Spanish AVE

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishAVEAcronym of alta velocidad española
2Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
3EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
4Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yetiEvery word from Latin -eōEvery word from Latin frīgeō
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