Where does “listă” come from?

listă (Romanian) comes from French lister, from French liste, from German līste, from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic līstōn.

listă (Romanian): list

Definitions

  1. list

Ancestry of “listă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchlisterlist
2Frenchlistelist
3Germanlīstelist
4Italianlistalist, pile; strip, stripe; inflection of...
5Old High Germanlīsta
6Proto-Germaniclīstōn
Every word from Proto-Germanic līstōn
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