Where does “opțiune” come from?

opțiune (Romanian) comes from French option, from Latin optiō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.

opțiune (Romanian): option

Definitions

  1. option

Ancestry of “opțiune”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchoptionoption
2Latinoptiōchoosing, choice, preference, option
3Latin-iō
4Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
5Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
6Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
7Chichewaiyehe, she
Every word from Chichewa iye