Where does “pilă” come from?

pilă (Romanian) comes from French pile, from Old French pile, from Latin pila, from Latin pīlus, from Latin pīlum, from Proto-Italic pistlom, from Proto-Indo-European pis-tlo-, from Proto-Indo-European peys- — to grind, to crush.

pilă (Romanian): pile, battery

Definitions

  1. pile, battery

Ancestry of “pilă”, step by step

pilă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French pile

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpileheap, stack; pillar; battery
2Old Frenchpile—
3Latinpilamortar; pillar; pier
4Latinpīlusa hair
5Latinpīluma pounder, pestle
6Proto-Italicpistlom—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpis-tlo-—
8Proto-Indo-Europeanpeys-to grind, to crush

via Old Church Slavonic пила

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonicпилаsaw
2Proto-Slavicpilasaw, file
3Old High Germanfilfile

Words derived from “pilă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peys- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pis-tlo- →Every word from Proto-Italic pistlom →