Where does “tmeză” come from?

tmeză (Romanian) comes from French tmèse, from Latin tmēsis, from Ancient Greek τμῆσις, from Ancient Greek τέμνω, from Proto-Indo-European -né- — Forms mostly transitive imperfective verbs from...

tmeză (Romanian): tmesis

Definitions

  1. tmesis

Ancestry of “tmeză”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtmèsetmesis
2LatintmēsisThe separation of a word, tmesis
3Ancient Greekτμῆσιςcutting
4Ancient GreekτέμνωI cut, hew; I maim, wound; I butcher, sacrifice
5Proto-Indo-European-né-Forms mostly transitive imperfective verbs from...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -né- →Every word from Ancient Greek τέμνω →Every word from Ancient Greek τμῆσις →