Where does “tremă” come from?

tremă (Romanian) comes from French tréma, from Ancient Greek τρῆμα, from Ancient Greek -μᾰ, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

tremă (Romanian): umlaut

Definitions

  1. umlaut

Ancestry of “tremă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtrémaa trema, a diaeresis mark
2Ancient Greekτρῆμαhole, aperture, perforation
3Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
4Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →Every word from Ancient Greek -μᾰ →Every word from Ancient Greek τρῆμα →