Where does “italofilă” come from?
italofilă (Romanian) comes from Romanian italofil, from Italian italofilo, from Italian filo, from Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον, from Ancient Greek φύω, from Proto-Indo-European bʰuHyéti, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
Ancestry of “italofilă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | italofil | Italophile |
| 2 | Italian | italofilo | Italophile |
| 3 | Italian | filo | thread; yarn; string |
| 4 | Latin | phylum | phylum |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | φῦλον | a set of people or other beings; sex; nation,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | φύω | To bring forth, produce, generate, cause to grow;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuHyéti | to be becoming, to be growing, to be appearing |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |