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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

  1. an album, a book specially designed to keep...

Ancestry of “album”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishalbumA book specially designed to keep photographs,...
2Latinalbuminflection of albus: ## accusative masculine...
3LatinAlbus—
4Proto-Italicalβoswhite
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂élbʰoswhite

Words derived from “album”

  • albumlista
  • samlingsalbum
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