Where does “plumbușor” come from?

plumbușor (Romanian) comes from Romanian plumb, from Latin plumbum, from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος, from Proto-Indo-European morkʷ-iyo-.

Ancestry of “plumbușor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianplumblead; bullet, projectile; pencil
2Latinplumbumlead; ball of lead; pipe of lead
3Ancient Greekμόλυβδοςlead; graphite
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmorkʷ-iyo-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European morkʷ-iyo- →Every word from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος →Every word from Latin plumbum →