Where does “lună nouă” come from?
lună nouă (Romanian) comes from Romanian lună, 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 — he, she.
lună nouă (Romanian): new moon
Definitions
- new moon
Ancestry of “lună nouă”, step by step
lună nouă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian lună
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | lună | moon; month |
| 2 | Latin | abellona | hazelnut |
| 3 | Latin | abellana | filbert, hazelnut |
| 4 | Latin | -ās | Used to form gentilic adjectives with the meaning "of/from" a country or place |
| 5 | Latin | -ātis | first conjugation |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Romanian nouă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | nouă | nine; indefinite nominative feminine singular of... |
| 2 | Latin | novem | nine; 9; first-person singular present active... |
| 3 | Latin | novo | I make new, renew, refresh; I alter, change;... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | nowāō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néweh₂ti | to renew |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | néwos | new |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | new- | new; to nod, assent to |