Where does “pietraia” come from?

pietraia (Italian) comes from Italian -aia, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

pietraia (Italian): pile of stones; stony ground; scree

Definitions

  1. pile of stones; stony ground; scree

Ancestry of “pietraia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-aiaA suffix used to form agent nouns; Added to nouns...
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 →