Where does “lavă” come from?
lavă (Romanian) comes from French lave, from German Lava, from Italian lava, from Neapolitan lava, from Latin lābēs, from Latin lābor, from Old Latin labos, from Romanian labă — fox.
lavă (Romanian): lava
Definitions
- lava
Ancestry of “lavă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | lave | lava; inflection of laver: ## first/third-person... |
| 2 | German | Lava | lava |
| 3 | Italian | lava | third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 4 | Neapolitan | lava | a torrent of rain which washed the streets |
| 5 | Latin | lābēs | fall, collapse |
| 6 | Latin | lābor | work |
| 7 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 8 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 9 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 10 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 11 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |