Where does “dezdoi” come from?
dezdoi (Romanian) comes from Romanian îndoi, from Romanian în-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
dezdoi (Romanian): to straighten, unbend
Ancestry of “dezdoi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | îndoi | to bend, to fold over; to dog-ear; to bend, to... |
| 2 | Romanian | în- | used to denote derivation |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |