Where does “cream” come from?
cream (Romanian) comes from Romanian crea, from French créer, from Latin creō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
cream (Romanian): first-person singular imperfect of crea;...
Definitions
- first-person singular imperfect of crea;...
Ancestry of “cream”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | crea | to create |
| 2 | French | créer | to create |
| 3 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |