Where does “coastă” come from?

coastă (Romanian) comes from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European kost-.

coastă (Romanian): rib; flank, side; coast, seaside

Definitions

  1. rib; flank, side; coast, seaside

Ancestry of “coastă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincostaa rib; a side, a wall
2Proto-Indo-Europeankost-—

Words derived from “coastă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European kost- →Every word from Latin costa →
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