Where does “furnicătură” come from?
furnicătură (Romanian) comes from Romanian furnică, from Latin formīca, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
furnicătură (Romanian): itch
Ancestry of “furnicătură”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | furnică | ant |
| 2 | Latin | formīca | — |
| 3 | Latin | -ārium | — |
| 4 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |