Where does “straniu” come from?
straniu (Romanian) comes from Italian stranio, from Latin extrāneus, from Latin -āneus, from Latin -eus, from Proto-Italic *-eos.
straniu (Romanian): strange, bizarre, odd
Ancestry of “straniu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | stranio | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 2 | Latin | extrāneus | — |
| 3 | Latin | -āneus | — |
| 4 | Latin | -eus | argentum + API → argenteus; ferrum + API →... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-eos | — |