Where does “ardelencuță” come from?
ardelencuță (Romanian) comes from Romanian ardeleancă, from Romanian ardelean, from Romanian Ardeal, from Hungarian Erdély, from Hungarian erdő, from Hungarian eredő, from Hungarian ered, from Hungarian -ed — 3rd person plural verb ending.
Ancestry of “ardelencuță”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | ardeleancă | — |
| 2 | Romanian | ardelean | Transylvanian |
| 3 | Romanian | Ardeal | — |
| 4 | Hungarian | Erdély | — |
| 5 | Hungarian | erdő | forest; forest, mass, sea, wealth |
| 6 | Hungarian | eredő | present participle of ered: resulting, arising,... |
| 7 | Hungarian | ered | to originate, to come from, to derive from; to... |
| 8 | Hungarian | -ed | your; Used to form the definite second-person... |
| 9 | Hungarian | -é- | — |
| 10 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 11 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |