Where does “leuț” come from?

leuț (Romanian) comes from Romanian -uț, from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

leuț (Romanian): small lion

Definitions

  1. small lion

Ancestry of “leuț”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanian-uțForms masculine diminutives of nouns and...
2Latin-utus—
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →
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