Where does “alăpta” come from?
alăpta (Romanian) comes from French allaiter, from Old French alaitier, from Latin allactō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
alăpta (Romanian): to suckle, breastfeed, nurse
Definitions
- to suckle, breastfeed, nurse
Ancestry of “alăpta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | allaiter | to breastfeed; to suckle |
| 2 | Old French | alaitier | to breastfeed |
| 3 | Latin | allactō | to breastfeed said of the mother |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |