English
fumetto
Fumetto comes from Italian fumetto ‘comics, comic strip, cartoon’, from fumo ‘smoke’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰewh₂-1‘to smoke’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰuh₂mós2‘smoke’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fūmos2‘smoke’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfūmus2‘smoke, steam, fume’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfumo3‘smoke’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfumetto4‘comics, comic strip, cartoon’
- Englishtodayfumetto4
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós
- 2 Wiktionary, Italian fumo
- 3 Wiktionary, Italian fumetto
- 4 Wiktionary, English fumetto
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰewh₂-Wiktionary, Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós‘to smoke’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰuh₂mósWiktionary, Italian fumo‘smoke’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fūmosWiktionary, Italian fumo‘smoke’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfūmusWiktionary, Italian fumo‘smoke, steam, fume’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfumoWiktionary, Italian fumetto‘smoke’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfumettoWiktionary, English fumetto‘comics, comic strip, cartoon’
- EnglishtodayfumettoWiktionary, English fumetto
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’
Today it means
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Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “fumetto”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós, Italian fumo, Italian fumetto. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- / fumetto