Where does “torcăreasă” come from?

torcăreasă (Romanian) comes from Romanian toarce, from Vulgar Latin torcere, from Latin torqueō, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.

Ancestry of “torcăreasă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniantoarceto spin; to purr
2Vulgar Latintorcerepresent active infinitive of *torcō
3Latintorqueōto spin, whirl, twirl, turn, cause to revolve
4Proto-Indo-Europeanterkʷ-to turn, spin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- →Every word from Latin torqueō →Every word from Vulgar Latin torcere →