Where does “ruscă” come from?
ruscă (Romanian) comes from Romanian rujă, from Transylvanian Saxon Rosendal, from Proto-Baltic dal-, from Translingual da, from English deca-, from French déca-, from Latin decās, from Ancient Greek δεκάς — voice (of human or animal); sound.
ruscă (Romanian): a Russian woman
Definitions
- a Russian woman
Ancestry of “ruscă”, step by step
ruscă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian rujă
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | rujă | dog rose |
| 2 | Transylvanian Saxon | Rosendal | — |
| 3 | Proto-Baltic | dal- | — |
| 4 | Translingual | da | — |
| 5 | English | deca- | Greek number... |
| 6 | French | déca- | deca- |
| 7 | Latin | decās | a decade (period of ten years) |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | δεκάς | the number ten; a group of ten, decade |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -ᾰ́ς | group of |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -ónts | Derives nouns denoting body parts |
| 11 | Hungarian | önt | to pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön |
| 12 | Hungarian | ön | you |
| 13 | Hungarian | ön- | self- |
| 14 | Turkish | ön | front |
| 15 | Ottoman Turkish | اوك | voice (of human or animal); sound |
via Romanian rus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | rus | Russian |
| 2 | Russian | русь | Rus |
| 3 | Old East Slavic | Русь | Rus; Ruthenia |
| 4 | Finnish | ruotsi | Swedish |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | *roocci | Swede originally anyone from Roslagen |
| 6 | Old Swedish | roþs- | related to rowing |
| 7 | Old Norse | róðr | rowing |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | rōþrą | oar; rudder |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁reh₁- | to row; to separate; loose, sparse, rare |