xeonllo

Senso (Inglese)

knee

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ʃeˈonʎo̝/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da latino: geniculum

Affine portoghese: joelho

Affine spagnolo: hinojo

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese gẽolho, geonllo, gionllo, jeonllo, from Late Latin genuculum, alteration of Latin geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.
Cognate with Portuguese joelho and Spanish hinojo.