Where does “ecler” come from?
ecler (Romanian) comes from French éclair, from French éclairer, from Old French esclairer, from Vulgar Latin exclario, from Latin exclaro, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
ecler (Romanian): eclair
Ancestry of “ecler”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | éclair | lightning; flash; sparkle |
| 2 | French | éclairer | to light up; to brighten; to shed light on; to... |
| 3 | Old French | esclairer | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | exclario | — |
| 5 | Latin | exclaro | — |
| 6 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 7 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |