Where does “șifona” come from?
șifona (Romanian) comes from French chiffonner, from French chiffon, from French chiffe, from Middle French chiffe, from Old French chipe, from Middle English chip, from Old English ċipp, from Old English ċippian — to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...
șifona (Romanian): to crease
Definitions
- to crease
Ancestry of “șifona”, step by step
șifona traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French chiffonner
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chiffonner | to crumple, crease; to bother, to perplex |
| 2 | French | chiffon | rag; scrap |
| 3 | French | chiffe | rag; drip |
| 4 | Middle French | chiffe | cloth, old rag |
| 5 | Old French | chipe | rag; bit, scrap |
| 6 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 7 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 8 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |
via French siphonner
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | siphonner | to siphon |