Where does “leafă” come from?
leafă (Romanian) comes from Greek λεφτά, from Ancient Greek λεπτόν, from Ancient Greek λεπτός, from Ancient Greek -τός, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
leafă (Romanian): wage, salary
Ancestry of “leafă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Greek | λεφτά | money, cash; wealth, financial estate;... |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | λεπτόν | neuter nominative singular of λεπτός; neuter... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | λεπτός | peeled, husked; fine-grained; thin, lean |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -τός | creates verbal adjectives of possibility, either... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |