Where does “trăsură” come from?
trăsură (Romanian) comes from Romanian tras, from Romanian trage, from Vulgar Latin tragere, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ- — to run.
trăsură (Romanian): carriage
Definitions
- carriage
Ancestry of “trăsură”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | tras | pulling |
| 2 | Romanian | trage | to pull, draw, drag |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | tragere | — |
| 4 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |