Word Origin Summary

*-āō is attested in Proto-Italic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• abbreviere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• abbreviering

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -o

  Latin · inherited from

• -ant

  Latin · derived from

• absolutt komparativ

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• abbreviasjon

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• komparativ

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -are

  Sardinian · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root