Where does “beam” come from?

beam (Romanian) comes from Romanian bea, from Latin bibō, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

beam (Romanian): first-person singular imperfect indicative of...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of...

Ancestry of “beam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianbeato drink
2Latinbibōto drink
3Latin-ilis-ile
4Proto-Italic-elis—
5Proto-Indo-European-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ilis →Every word from Latin bibō →