Where does “umbrelă” come from?

umbrelă (Romanian) comes from French ombrelle, from Italian ombrello, from Late Latin umbrella, from Latin umbra, from Old Latin omra, from Proto-Indo-European h₂mr-u-.

umbrelă (Romanian): umbrella

Definitions

  1. umbrella

Ancestry of “umbrelă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchombrelleparasol
2Italianombrelloumbrella, brolly, gamp
3Late Latinumbrella—
4Latinumbraa shadow; a shade; a ghost
5Old Latinomra—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂mr-u-—

Words derived from “umbrelă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂mr-u- →Every word from Old Latin omra →Every word from Latin umbra →