Where does “scotoci” come from?
scotoci (Romanian) comes from Romanian scoate, from Vulgar Latin excotere, from Latin excutere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis, from Proto-Italic kommoinis — resin, gum; to say, speak.
scotoci (Romanian): to rummage
Definitions
- to rummage
Ancestry of “scotoci”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | scoate | to remove, take out, subtract, bring out, pull... |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | excotere | — |
| 3 | Latin | excutere | present active infinitive of excutiō;... |
| 4 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 5 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |