Where does “coardă” come from?

coardă (Romanian) comes from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- — bowels, intestines.

coardă (Romanian): cord, rope; string; vein, nerve, tendon,...

Definitions

  1. cord, rope; string; vein, nerve, tendon,...

Ancestry of “coardă”, step by step

coardă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin chorda

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinchordacord, string; tripe, intestine; catgut
2Ancient Greekχορδήguts, intestines; string made of gut; string,...
3Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰerH-bowels, intestines

via Romanian cordi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniancordito fuck
2Romanikurelto have sexual intercourse

Words derived from “coardă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- →Every word from Ancient Greek χορδή →Every word from Latin chorda →