Where does “Astancăi” come from?
Astancăi (Romanian) comes from Romanian stâncă, from Romanian -ă, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
Ancestry of “Astancăi”, step by step
Astancăi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian stâncă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | stâncă | cliff; rock |
| 2 | Romanian | -ă | Forms certain female equivalent nouns |
| 3 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Romanian A
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | A | — |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | ae(t) | — |
| 3 | Latin | habet | third-person singular present active indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | habeo | I have, hold; I own, have; I possess, have |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | habēō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰh₁bʰ- | to grab, to take; to grab, take |