Where does “tarnośliwa” come from?

tarnośliwa (Polish) comes from English tarn, from Middle English terne, from Old French terne, from Latin ternas, from Latin terni, from Latin ter, from Latin terr, from Old Latin tris.

tarnośliwa (Polish): blackthorn

Definitions

  1. blackthorn

Ancestry of “tarnośliwa”, step by step

tarnośliwa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English tarn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtarnA small mountain lake, "especially" in Northern...
2Middle Englishterne
3Old Frenchternedull, dim
4Latinternasaccusative feminine plural of terni
5Latinternithree each; three at a time
6Latinterthrice
7Latinterr
8Old Latintris
9Proto-Italictrēsthree
10Proto-Indo-European*tréyes

via Polish Śliwa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PolishŚliwaplum
2Polishśliwaplum
3Proto-Slavicslivaplum; plum tree
4Proto-Balto-Slavic*slīˀwā́ˀ
5Proto-Indo-European(s)leh₃y-blueish
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
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