Where does “colan” come from?
colan (Romanian) comes from Italian collana, from Italian collo, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
colan (Romanian): necklace; girdle; breastplate
Definitions
- necklace; girdle; breastplate
Ancestry of “colan”, step by step
colan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian collana
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | collana | necklace; collection, series |
| 2 | Italian | collo | neck; collar; parcel, package; luggage |
| 3 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 4 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 5 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |