Where does “bumbăceală” come from?

bumbăceală (Romanian) comes from Romanian bumbăci, from Romanian -î, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

bumbăceală (Romanian): a beating

Definitions

  1. a beating

Ancestry of “bumbăceală”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianbumbăcito beat up
2Romanian-îA suffix forming infinitives of many verbs
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Romanian -î →