Where does “scrotal” come from?
scrotal (Romanian) comes from French scrotal, from French scrotum, from Latin scrotum, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.
scrotal (Romanian): scrotal
Ancestry of “scrotal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | scrotal | scrotal |
| 2 | French | scrotum | scrotum |
| 3 | Latin | scrotum | scrotum |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |