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Where does “terregoso” come from?

terregoso (Spanish) comes from Spanish Tierra, from Latin Terra, from Proto-Indo-European ters- — dry.

terregoso (Spanish): Full of clods or lumps of earth

Definitions

  1. Full of clods or lumps of earth

Ancestry of “terregoso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishTierraEarth
2LatinTerragoddess of the earth; the Earth itself; tierra ...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanters-dry
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters- →