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