Where does “lefușoară” come from?
lefușoară (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.
lefușoară (Romanian): small wage
Definitions
- small wage
Ancestry of “lefușoară”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | leafă | wage, salary |
| 2 | Greek | λεφτά | money, cash; wealth, financial estate;... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | λεπτόν | neuter nominative singular of λεπτός; neuter... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | λεπτός | peeled, husked; fine-grained; thin, lean |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -τός | creates verbal adjectives of possibility, either... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |