Where does “laiotă” come from?
laiotă (Romanian) comes from Romanian laie, from Romanian lai, from Albanian ljaj.
laiotă (Romanian): crowd
Ancestry of “laiotă”, step by step
laiotă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian laie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | laie | nominative feminine singular of lai; accusative... |
| 2 | Romanian | lai | black (or black mixed with white), gray |
| 3 | Albanian | ljaj | — |
via Finnish liota
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liota | To soak; Indicative present connegative form of... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | ligot'ak | to soak |