Word Origin Summary

A dato is attested in Norwegian Bokmål. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *adProto-Italicderived from
2. 𐤀Phoenicianborrowed from
3. āLatinderived from
4. ΑAncient Greekderived from
5. aItalianderived from
6. a datoItalianborrowed from
7. *h₂édProto-Indo-Europeanderived from
8. *h₂epóProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

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