Where does “livadă” come from?
livadă (Romanian) comes from Bulgarian ливада, from Greek λιβάδι, from Ancient Greek λιβάδιον, from Ancient Greek λιβάς, from Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς, from Proto-Indo-European -ónts, from Hungarian önt, from Hungarian ön — sound, voice.
livadă (Romanian): orchard; meadow
Ancestry of “livadă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Bulgarian | ливада | — |
| 2 | Greek | λιβάδι | meadow, pasture, lea |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | λιβάδιον | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | λιβάς | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ᾰ́ς | group of |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 7 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 8 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 9 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 10 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 11 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | — |
| 12 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |
Words derived from “livadă”