Where does “lindină” come from?

lindină (Romanian) comes from Latin lendina, from Latin lēns — lentil.

lindină (Romanian): nit (egg of a louse)

Definitions

  1. nit (egg of a louse)

Ancestry of “lindină”, step by step

lindină traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin lendina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlendinanit, louse
2Latinlēnslentil

via Old Church Slavonic лѧдина

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonicлѧдинаuntilled, barren land
2Proto-Slaviclędinauntilled land

Words derived from “lindină”

Every word from Latin lēns →