Where does “danteluță” come from?
danteluță (Romanian) comes from Romanian dantelă, from French dentelle, from French dent, from Middle French dent, from Old French dent, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens — to eat.
danteluță (Romanian): small lace
Definitions
- small lace
Ancestry of “danteluță”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | dantelă | lace |
| 2 | French | dentelle | lace |
| 3 | French | dent | tooth; cog |
| 4 | Middle French | dent | tooth |
| 5 | Old French | dent | tooth |
| 6 | Latin | dēns | a tooth |
| 7 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 8 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |