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Where does “salivă” come from?

salivă (Romanian) comes from French saliver, from French -er, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier — suffix used to form infinitives of first...

salivă (Romanian): saliva

Definitions

  1. saliva

Ancestry of “salivă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsaliverto salivate
2French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
3Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
4Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
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