Where does “mâzgălitură” come from?

mâzgălitură (Romanian) comes from Romanian mâzgăli, from Romanian mâzgă, from Proto-Slavic mezga — sap.

mâzgălitură (Romanian): doodle

Definitions

  1. doodle

Ancestry of “mâzgălitură”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianmâzgălito scribble, scrawl; to smear; to daub
2Romanianmâzgăslime
3Proto-Slavicmezgasap
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