Where does “fisură” come from?
fisură (Romanian) comes from French fissurer, from French fissure, from Latin fissura, from Latin findō, from Proto-Italic findō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyd-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰey- — bee.
fisură (Romanian): fissure
Definitions
- fissure
Ancestry of “fisură”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fissurer | to fissure; to crack |
| 2 | French | fissure | fissure; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | fissura | fissure, cleft; nominative feminine singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | findō | to cleave, break up, separate, divide, split, part |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | findō | split, cleave |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeyd- | to split |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰey- | bee |