Where does “preacurată” come from?
preacurată (Romanian) comes from Romanian curat, from Romanian cura, from German kurieren, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er — he, she.
preacurată (Romanian): an epithet of Virgin Mary
Definitions
- an epithet of Virgin Mary
Ancestry of “preacurată”, step by step
preacurată traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian curat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | curat | clean |
| 2 | Romanian | cura | to clean; to clear, eliminate, deforest; to cure,... |
| 3 | German | kurieren | To cure |
| 4 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 5 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 7 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 8 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Romanian prea
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | prea | too |
| 2 | Old Church Slavonic | прѣ- | over |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | per- | over-; re- |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | pro- | pro-, for-, through |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | *pro | for |
| 6 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | *pra | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pró | toward, leading to |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |