Where does “rujă” come from?
rujă (Romanian) comes from Transylvanian Saxon Rosendal, from Proto-Baltic dal-, from Translingual da, from English deca-, from French déca-, from Latin decās, from Ancient Greek δεκάς, from Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς — sound, voice.
rujă (Romanian): dog rose
Definitions
- dog rose
Ancestry of “rujă”, step by step
rujă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Transylvanian Saxon Rosendal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transylvanian Saxon | Rosendal | — |
| 2 | Proto-Baltic | dal- | — |
| 3 | Translingual | da | — |
| 4 | English | deca- | Greek number... |
| 5 | French | déca- | deca- |
| 6 | Latin | decās | a decade (period of ten years) |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | δεκάς | the number ten; a group of ten, decade |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ᾰ́ς | group of |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 10 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 11 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 12 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 13 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 14 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
| 15 | Proto-Turkic | ǖn | sound, voice |
via Romanian ruj
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | ruj | lipstick |
| 2 | French | rouge | red |
| 3 | Middle French | rouge | red |
| 4 | Old French | roge | red |
| 5 | Latin | rubeus | red, reddish; of or pertaining to the bramble... |
| 6 | Latin | ruber | red approximately like red ochre (which had a traditional status among the Romans); red that was both common and dignified, somewhat associated with pigment |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | ruðros | red |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁rudʰrós | red |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁rewdʰ- | red |