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Where does “ingle” come from?

ingle (Spanish) comes from Latin inguen, from Proto-Indo-European h₁n̥gʷ-en-.

ingle (Spanish): groin

Definitions

  1. groin

Ancestry of “ingle”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latininguengroin; privates
2Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁n̥gʷ-en-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁n̥gʷ-en- →