Where does “envainar” come from?

envainar (Spanish) comes from Spanish vaina, from Old Spanish vayna, from Latin vāgīna, from Proto-Italic wāgīnā, from Proto-Indo-European wāg- — to be bent.

envainar (Spanish): to sheathe/sheath

Definitions

  1. to sheathe/sheath

Ancestry of “envainar”, step by step

envainar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish vaina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishvainapod; scabbard, sheath; case, casing
2Old Spanishvaynasheath
3Latinvāgīnasheath; scabbard
4Proto-Italicwāgīnāsheath, scabbard
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwāg-to be bent

via Galician vaíña

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianvaíñasheath, scabbard
2Portuguesebainhasheath, scabbard; hem

Words derived from “envainar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wāg- →Every word from Proto-Italic wāgīnā →Every word from Latin vāgīna →