Where does “șifonare” come from?
șifonare (Romanian) comes from Romanian șifona, 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 — to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...
șifonare (Romanian): wrinkling
Definitions
- wrinkling
Ancestry of “șifonare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | șifona | to crease |
| 2 | French | chiffonner | to crumple, crease; to bother, to perplex |
| 3 | French | chiffon | rag; scrap |
| 4 | French | chiffe | rag; drip |
| 5 | Middle French | chiffe | cloth, old rag |
| 6 | Old French | chipe | rag; bit, scrap |
| 7 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 8 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 9 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |