Where does “cicăleală” come from?

cicăleală (Romanian) comes from Romanian cicăli, 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...

cicăleală (Romanian): nagging

Definitions

  1. nagging

Ancestry of “cicăleală”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniancicălito nag
2RomanianA 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
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