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Where does “cufrânge” come from?

cufrânge (Romanian) comes from Romanian frânge, from Latin frangō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- — to shine, shimmer.

cufrânge (Romanian): to break, shatter, smash, fracture

Definitions

  1. to break, shatter, smash, fracture

Ancestry of “cufrânge”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianfrângeto break, smash, fracture; to defeat
2Latinfrangō—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer
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