Where does “Apăvăloaie” come from?
Apăvăloaie (Romanian) comes from Romanian Păvăloaia, from Romanian -oaia, from Romanian -ă, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
Ancestry of “Apăvăloaie”, step by step
Apăvăloaie traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian Păvăloaia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | Păvăloaia | — |
| 2 | Romanian | -oaia | suffix forming many feminine Romanian surnames |
| 3 | Romanian | -ă | Forms certain female equivalent nouns |
| 4 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |