Where does “inerție” come from?
inerție (Romanian) comes from French inertie, from Latin inertia, from Latin iners, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
inerție (Romanian): inertia; inertia, idleness, sloth
Definitions
- inertia; inertia, idleness, sloth
Ancestry of “inerție”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | inertie | inertia; lack of dynamism or forcefulness |
| 2 | Latin | inertia | want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance;... |
| 3 | Latin | iners | without skill, unskilled, unskillful,... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 5 | Latin | în | — |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |