Where does “cuellirrojo” come from?

cuellirrojo (Spanish) comes from Spanish cuello, from Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cuellirrojo (Spanish): red-necked

Definitions

  1. red-necked

Ancestry of “cuellirrojo”, step by step

cuellirrojo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish cuello

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcuelloneck; collar
2Old Spanishcuelloneck
3Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
4Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Spanish Rojo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishRojored colour
2Spanishrojored; a 1000 colón bill; Red; a left-winger,...
3Latinrusseusdark red
4Latinrussusred, reddish-brown
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁rewdʰ-red
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂
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