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Where does “iele” come from?

iele (Romanian) comes from Romanian ele, from Latin illae, from Latin illī, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.

iele (Romanian): fairy like beings in Romanian folklore

Definitions

  1. fairy like beings in Romanian folklore

Ancestry of “iele”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianelethey; them
2Latinillaenominative feminine plural of ille
3Latinillī—
4Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
5LatinolleArchaic form of ille
6Proto-Italic*olnos—
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