Etymograph

English

fumetto

Fumetto comes from Italian fumetto ‘comics, comic strip, cartoon’, from fumo ‘smoke’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰewh₂-‘to smoke’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰuh₂mós‘smoke’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fūmos‘smoke’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfūmus‘smoke, steam, fume’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentfumo‘smoke’
  6. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfumetto‘comics, comic strip, cartoon’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰewh₂-‘to smoke’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰuh₂mós‘smoke’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fūmos‘smoke’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfūmus‘smoke, steam, fume’
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentfumo‘smoke’
  6. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfumetto‘comics, comic strip, cartoon’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘to smoke’

down, steam, dye, dew, dun, dune, dag, duvet, thymus, typhon, obfuscate, 27 more

through Latin fūmus ‘smoke, steam, fume’

funk, fumigation, 14 more

Today it means

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- / fumetto

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