espejo

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Spanish word espejo comes from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-, Latin -ulum (Used to form a noun of instrument or means from a verb.)

*speḱ- (Proto-Indo-European)

to look

-ulum (Latin)

Used to form a noun of instrument or means from a verb.

sspecio (Latin)

*spéḱyeti (Proto-Indo-European)

To be looking at, to keep looking at.

*spekjō (Proto-Italic)

To observe, to see.

specere (Latin)

A looking-glass, mirror.

spillu (Old Spanish)

espejo (Spanish)

Mirror.

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