Where does “stupă” come from?

stupă (Romanian) comes from Latin stuppa, from Ancient Greek στύππη — tow, flax, oakum.

stupă (Romanian): tow; stupa

Definitions

  1. tow; stupa

Ancestry of “stupă”, step by step

stupă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin stuppa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinstuppacoarse flax, tow
2Ancient Greekστύππηtow, flax, oakum

via French stupa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchstupastupa
2Sanskritस्तूपstupa; heap, mound, relic-shrine, summit
Every word from Ancient Greek στύππη →Every word from Latin stuppa →