Where does “mucoasă” come from?

mucoasă (Romanian) comes from French muqueux, from Latin mūcōsus, from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Italic moukos, from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- — slimy, slippery; slip, slime.

mucoasă (Romanian): mucous membrane

Definitions

  1. mucous membrane

Ancestry of “mucoasă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmuqueuxmucous
2Latinmūcōsusslimy
3Latinmūcusmucus
4Proto-Italicmoukos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-k-slimy, slippery; slip, slime
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- →Every word from Proto-Italic moukos →Every word from Latin mūcus →