Where does “furculiță” come from?
furculiță (Romanian) comes from Romanian -uliță, from Romanian -ul, from Old Romanian *-lu, from Latin illum, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
furculiță (Romanian): fork
Ancestry of “furculiță”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | -uliță | — |
| 2 | Romanian | -ul | variant of -l |
| 3 | Old Romanian | *-lu | — |
| 4 | Latin | illum | accusative masculine singular of ille |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |