Where does “tăliuță” come from?
tăliuță (Romanian) comes from Romanian talie, from Russian талия, from French taille, from Old French taille, from Old French taillier, from Latin taliō, from Latin tālis, from Proto-Indo-European tód — this; that.
Ancestry of “tăliuță”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | talie | waistline |
| 2 | Russian | талия | waist |
| 3 | French | taille | the act of cutting, pruning, trimming; size;... |
| 4 | Old French | taille | cut; cut; wound; incision; a count kept by... |
| 5 | Old French | taillier | to cut; to shape |
| 6 | Latin | taliō | punishment equal to the injury sustained; retaliation |
| 7 | Latin | tālis | such |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tód | demonstrative pronoun; that; it |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | to- | it; that; the, that |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |