Where does “oocit” come from?

oocit (Romanian) comes from English oocyte, from English oo, from Hawaiian ʻōʻō, from Proto-Polynesian *koho, from Proto-Oceanic *kojom.

oocit (Romanian): oocyte

Definitions

  1. oocyte

Ancestry of “oocit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishoocyteA cell that develops into an egg or ovum; a...
2EnglishooThe Greek letter omega; Any of four Hawaiian...
3Hawaiianʻōʻōoo, the extinct members of the Moho genus of honeyeaters
4Proto-Polynesian*koho—
5Proto-Oceanic*kojom—
Every word from Proto-Oceanic *kojom →