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Where does “arahnidă” come from?

arahnidă (Romanian) comes from French arachnide, from French -ide, from Middle French -ide, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

arahnidă (Romanian): arachnid

Definitions

  1. arachnid

Ancestry of “arahnidă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frencharachnidearachnid
2French-ide—
3Middle French-ide—
4Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-Italic-ā—
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →