Where does “ață” come from?
ață (Romanian) comes from Latin acia, from Latin aciēs, from Latin aceō, from Proto-Italic akēō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂eḱ-éh₁-ye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂eḱ- — sharp.
ață (Romanian): thread, string
Ancestry of “ață”, step by step