Where does “coajă” come from?

coajă (Romanian) comes from Proto-Slavic koža, from Proto-Slavic -ja, from Proto-Indo-European -yeh₂.

coajă (Romanian): layer; peel (of fruit), rind, crust (of bread), shell (of nuts), or bark (of trees)

Definitions

  1. layer; peel (of fruit), rind, crust (of bread), shell (of nuts), or bark (of trees)

Ancestry of “coajă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavickožaskin; leather
2Proto-Slavic-jaSuffix creating feminine action nouns, usually...
3Proto-Indo-European-yeh₂—

Words derived from “coajă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeh₂ →Every word from Proto-Slavic -ja →Every word from Proto-Slavic koža →