Where does “album” come from?
album (Swedish) comes from English album, from Latin album, from Latin Albus, from Proto-Italic alβos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂élbʰos — white.
album (Swedish): an album, a book specially designed to keep...
Definitions
- an album, a book specially designed to keep...
Ancestry of “album”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | album | A book specially designed to keep photographs,... |
| 2 | Latin | album | inflection of albus:
## accusative masculine... |
| 3 | Latin | Albus | white properly without, dull white |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | alβos | white |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂élbʰos | white |
Words derived from “album”