Where does “semblar” come from?

semblar (Spanish) comes from Old Occitan semblar, from Latin similāre, from Latin similaris, from Latin similis, from Proto-Italic semalis, from Proto-Indo-European sem- — together, one.

semblar (Spanish): to look like, resemble, seem

Definitions

  1. to look like, resemble, seem

Ancestry of “semblar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitansemblarseem; to appear
2Latinsimilārea fax machine
3Latinsimilarisuniform; similar; second-person singular present...
4Latinsimilissimilar
5Proto-Italicsemalissimiliar
6Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one

Words derived from “semblar

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem-
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