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Where does “trabajar” come from?

trabajar (Spanish) comes from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

trabajar (Spanish): to work; to work in, work on, to workshop; to...

Definitions

  1. to work; to work in, work on, to workshop; to...

Ancestry of “trabajar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latintripaliareto work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō
2Latintripaliumtorture instrument; a torture instrument
3Latintripālis—
4Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
5Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “trabajar”

  • trabajo
  • jotraba
  • trabaho
  • trabahante
  • trabaho
  • magtrabaho
  • tadawaaju
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