Where does “cucuruziște” come from?

cucuruziște (Romanian) comes from Romanian -iște, from Old Church Slavonic -ище, from Proto-Slavic -išče, from Proto-Slavic isk-je.

cucuruziște (Romanian): maize field

Definitions

  1. maize field

Ancestry of “cucuruziște”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanian-iștenoun suffix used to denote a place
2Old Church Slavonic-ище—
3Proto-Slavic-iščeDenominal, denoting places or spaces; Denominal,...
4Proto-Slavicisk-je—
Every word from Proto-Slavic isk-je →Every word from Proto-Slavic -išče →Every word from Romanian -iște →