Where does “lună” come from?
lună (Romanian) comes from Latin abellona, from Latin abellana, from Latin -ās, from Latin -ātis, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé- — he, she.
lună (Romanian): moon; month
Definitions
- moon; month
Ancestry of “lună”, step by step
lună traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin abellona
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | abellona | hazelnut |
| 2 | Latin | abellana | filbert, hazelnut |
| 3 | Latin | -ās | Used to form gentilic adjectives with the meaning "of/from" a country or place |
| 4 | Latin | -ātis | first conjugation |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |