Where does “tângă” come from?

tângă (Romanian) comes from French tanguer, from Old French tengre.

tângă (Romanian): sadness

Definitions

  1. sadness

Ancestry of “tângă”, step by step

tângă traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via French tanguer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtanguerto sway back and forth; to spin, sway; to shake
2Old Frenchtengre—

via Old Church Slavonic тѫга

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Church Slavonicтѫгаsadness, melancholy; suffering, distress,...
2Proto-Slavictǫgasadness, melancholy

via Romanian tâng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniantângpowerless
2Old Church Slavonicтѫгъ—
Every word from Old French tengre →Every word from French tanguer →