Proto-Italic · reconstructed language

*fabā

noun

Meaning

fava bean

Etymology / origin

Reflecting a Proto-Indo-European root *bʰab-, *bʰabʰ- (“fava bean”) shared with Proto-Slavic *bobъ and Old Prussian babo. The *bʰa- is also shared with Ancient Greek φακός (phakós), Albanian bathë and Proto-Germanic *baunō. Ultimately likely from a European substrate.

*baunō(gem-pro)→
bathë(Albanian)→
φακός(Ancient Greek)→
babo(prg)→
*bobъ(sla-pro)→
-(ine-pro)→
fabā (Proto-Italic)
Relations: der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog

Related words

-(ine-pro)*bobъ(sla-pro)babo(prg)φακός(Ancient Greek)bathë(Albanian)*baunō(gem-pro)

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