Where does “grijă” come from?
grijă (Romanian) comes from Bulgarian гри́жа, from Proto-Slavic gryža, from Proto-Slavic -ja, from Proto-Indo-European -yeh₂.
grijă (Romanian): worry; care
Ancestry of “grijă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Bulgarian | гри́жа | — |
| 2 | Proto-Slavic | gryža | physical discomfort, pain; worry, concern |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | -ja | Suffix creating feminine action nouns, usually... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeh₂ | — |
Words derived from “grijă”