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Where does “cualquier” come from?

cualquier (Spanish) comes from Spanish cualquiera, from Spanish cuál, from Latin quālis, from Proto-Indo-European kʷō-.

cualquier (Spanish): Apocopic form of cualquiera; any; whatever;...

Definitions

  1. Apocopic form of cualquiera; any; whatever;...

Ancestry of “cualquier”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcualquieraanyone, whoever, whomever; any, whatever,...
2Spanishcuálwhat ; which, which one
3Latinquālis—
4Proto-Indo-Europeankʷō-—
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