Where does “teglă” come from?

teglă (Romanian) comes from Hungarian tégla, from Latin tēgula, from Latin tegō, from Proto-Italic tegō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- — to cover; pole, stick, beam.

teglă (Romanian): brick

Definitions

  1. brick

Ancestry of “teglă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariantéglabrick
2Latintēgulaa large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex
3Latintegōto cover; to clothe
4Proto-Italictegōcover
5Proto-Indo-European(s)teg-to cover; pole, stick, beam

Words derived from “teglă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- →Every word from Proto-Italic tegō →Every word from Latin tegō →