Where does “urtie” come from?

urtie (Friulian) comes from Latin urtīca, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

urtie (Friulian): nettle

Definitions

  1. nettle

Ancestry of “urtie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinurtīcastinging nettle
2Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →