Where does “lefișoară” come from?

lefișoară (Romanian) comes from Romanian leafă, 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.

Ancestry of “lefișoară”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianleafăwage, salary
2Greekλεφτάmoney, cash; wealth, financial estate;...
3Ancient Greekλεπτόνneuter nominative singular of λεπτός; neuter...
4Ancient Greekλεπτόςpeeled, husked; fine-grained; thin, lean
5Ancient Greek-τόςcreates verbal adjectives of possibility, either...
6Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tósEvery word from Ancient Greek -τόςEvery word from Ancient Greek λεπτός
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