Where does “buclă” come from?
buclă (Romanian) comes from French boucler, from French boucle, from Old French boucle, from Latin buccula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
buclă (Romanian): lock of hair
Ancestry of “buclă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | boucler | to buckle; to curl; to tie up |
| 2 | French | boucle | loop; earring; buckle |
| 3 | Old French | boucle | buckle |
| 4 | Latin | buccula | little cheek or mouth; the beaver, part of a... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |