Where does “cântar” come from?
cântar (Romanian) comes from Ottoman Turkish قنطار, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom.
cântar (Romanian): scale; steelyard
Definitions
- scale; steelyard
Ancestry of “cântar”, step by step
cântar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Ottoman Turkish قنطار
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | قنطار | kantar; steelyard; hundredweight, quintal |
| 2 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 3 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 4 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 5 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 6 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 7 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Romanian cânta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | cânta | to sing; to play |
| 2 | Latin | cantāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 4 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 5 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via Romanian ar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | ar | would; API; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Romanian | ară | to plough |
| 3 | Latin | arō | to plough, till; to cultivate land, farm; to acquire by tillage |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | araō | to plough |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éryeti | to be ploughing |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂erh₃- | to plough |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁er- | earth |