Where does “capîntortură” come from?
capîntortură (Romanian) comes from Romanian cap, from French cap, from Occitan cap, from Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic kaput, from Proto-Indo-European káput — to seize, hold.
capîntortură (Romanian): Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
Definitions
- Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
Ancestry of “capîntortură”, step by step
capîntortură traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian cap
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | cap | head; cape |
| 2 | French | cap | cape; head; heading |
| 3 | Occitan | cap | head; cape, headland |
| 4 | Old Occitan | cap | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | capus | — |
| 6 | Latin | caput | head; headlike protuberance on an organ or body... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
via Romanian întort
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | întort | crooked, bent, twisted; stubborn, obstinate |
| 2 | Latin | intortus | contorted |
| 3 | Latin | intorqueo | I twist, turn or spin around; wrench, sprain;... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |