Where does “gondolieră” come from?
gondolieră (Romanian) comes from Romanian gondolier, from Italian gondoliere, from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Greek κοντούρα, from Italian contorno, from French contour, from French contourner — whale, sea monster; abyss.
gondolieră (Romanian): song of the gondoliers
Definitions
- song of the gondoliers
Ancestry of “gondolieră”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | gondolier | gondolier |
| 2 | Italian | gondoliere | gondolier |
| 3 | Italian | gondola | gondola; nacelle; pod |
| 4 | Venetian | góndoła | gondola |
| 5 | Greek | κοντούρα | the finish of a design; outline |
| 6 | Italian | contorno | contour, outline; vegetables; first-person... |
| 7 | French | contour | contour |
| 8 | French | contourner | to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to... |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | contornare | — |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |