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Where does “collar” come from?

collar (Spanish) comes from Catalan collar, from Late Latin collare, from Latin collāris, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

collar (Spanish): necklace; an animal's collar, band or chain...

Definitions

  1. necklace; an animal's collar, band or chain...

Ancestry of “collar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1CatalancollarA collar; A necklace; An aventail
2Late Latincollarean unattached item worn about the neck;...
3Latincollāris—
4Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
5Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
6Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
7Proto-Italic-ā—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “collar”

  • collarín
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →