Where does “Bukareŝto” come from?
Bukareŝto (Esperanto) comes from Romanian București, from Romanian -ești, from Latin -ēscō, from Proto-Italic *-ēskō.
Ancestry of “Bukareŝto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | București | Bucharest |
| 2 | Romanian | -ești | plural of -esc; Used with a stem to form the... |
| 3 | Latin | -ēscō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-ēskō | — |