Where does “radă” come from?
radă (Romanian) comes from French rade, from Middle French rade, from Old French *rade, from Middle English rade, from Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic raidu, from Proto-Germanic raidō, from Proto-Germanic rīdaną — to fit, to fix, to put together.
radă (Romanian): roadstead
Ancestry of “radă”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | rade | harbour; pavement , sidewalk; bar, counter |
| 2 | Middle French | rade | — |
| 3 | Old French | *rade | — |
| 4 | Middle English | rade | quick, fast, speedy; rash, hasty, angry; eager |
| 5 | Old English | rād | road; riding, hostile incursion; riding, road |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | raidu | riding, ride |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | raidō | ride, journey; name of the R-rune |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | rīdaną | to ride |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | rēydʰ- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |