Where does “cuesta” come from?
cuesta (Spanish) comes from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European kost-.
cuesta (Spanish): slope; cuesta
Ancestry of “cuesta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | costa | a rib; a side, a wall |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | kost- | — |
Words derived from “cuesta”