Where does “instabilitate” come from?
instabilitate (Romanian) comes from French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas, from Latin instabilis, from Latin stabilis, from Latin stare, from Latin sto, from Proto-Italic staēō, from Proto-Indo-European sth₂éh₁yeti.
instabilitate (Romanian): instability
Ancestry of “instabilitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | instabilité | instability |
| 2 | Latin | instabilitas | unsteadiness, instability |
| 3 | Latin | instabilis | unsteady, unstable, shaky; inconstant,... |
| 4 | Latin | stabilis | That stands firm; firm, steadfast, steady, sure,... |
| 5 | Latin | stare | present active infinitive of stō; stand; to be |
| 6 | Latin | sto | I stand; I stay, remain; I am |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |