Where does “șpagă” come from?
șpagă (Romanian) comes from Russian шпага, from Polish szpada, from German Spaten, from Dutch spatten, from Dutch -en, from Middle Dutch -en, from Old Dutch -en, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
șpagă (Romanian): sword
Definitions
- sword
Ancestry of “șpagă”, step by step
șpagă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Russian шпага
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | шпага | small sword, epee, foil, rapier |
| 2 | Polish | szpada | épée |
| 3 | German | Spaten | spade |
| 4 | Dutch | spatten | to splatter, splash |
| 5 | Dutch | -en | Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives. The stem... |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | -en | The ending of the infinitive form of verbs, used... |
| 7 | Old Dutch | -en | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Albanian shpagë
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albanian | shpagë | — |
| 2 | Italian | paga | pay; wages; reward, recompense |
| 3 | Italian | pagare | to pay |
| 4 | Italian | pacare | to calm or calm down |
| 5 | Latin | pācāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | pāx | peace |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | pāks | peace |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | péh₂ḱ-s | peace |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂ḱ- | to join, to attach; agreement, settlement |