Where does “glumă” come from?

glumă (Romanian) comes from French glume, from Latin gluma, from Latin glubo, from Proto-Italic glouβō, from Proto-Indo-European glewbʰ- — to split.

glumă (Romanian): joke, jest; prank; glume

Definitions

  1. joke, jest; prank; glume

Ancestry of “glumă”, step by step

glumă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French glume

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchglumeglume
2Latinglumahusk of grain; chaff
3LatingluboI strip the bark from a tree, I peel, I shuck; I...
4Proto-Italicglouβōto split
5Proto-Indo-Europeanglewbʰ-to split

via Old Church Slavonic глоумъ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonicглоумъ—
2Proto-Slavicglumъmockery?, amusement?, joke?

Words derived from “glumă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European glewbʰ- →Every word from Proto-Italic glouβō →Every word from Latin glubo →
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