Where does “fâsâitură” come from?

fâsâitură (Romanian) comes from Romanian fâsâi, from Finnish fas-, from Hungarian fá, from Proto-Uralic puwe — tree, wood.

fâsâitură (Romanian): whistling

Definitions

  1. whistling

Ancestry of “fâsâitură”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianfâsâito fizzle
2Finnishfas-—
3Hungarianfáfa, a syllable used in solfège to represent the...
4Proto-Uralicpuwetree, wood
Every word from Proto-Uralic puwe →Every word from Hungarian fá →Every word from Finnish fas- →