Where does “mărgelușă” come from?

mărgelușă (Romanian) comes from Romanian mărgea, from Latin margella, from Latin margō, from Proto-Indo-European merǵ- — edge, boundary, border; boundary, border;...

mărgelușă (Romanian): small bead

Definitions

  1. small bead

Ancestry of “mărgelușă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianmărgeaa glass bead; a wattle on a turkey
2Latinmargellared coral; coral bead
3Latinmargōborder, margin, edge
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmerǵ-edge, boundary, border; boundary, border;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European merǵ- →Every word from Latin margō →Every word from Latin margella →