Where does “Bucharest” come from?

Bucharest is the English name for Romania's capital, derived from Romanian Bucureşti, formed from the Romanian suffix -ești appended to an earlier root.

Bucharest (English): The Romanian government

Definitions

  1. The Romanian government

Ancestry of “Bucharest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1RussianБухаре́ст—
2RomanianBucureștiBucharest
3Romanian-eștiplural of -esc; Used with a stem to form the...
4Latin-ēscōAttaches to a stem (a noun or adjective) to form a verb meaning “to become [stem]” or similar
5Proto-Italic*-ēskō—

Words derived from “Bucharest”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-ēskō →Every word from Romanian -ești →Every word from Latin -ēscō →