Where does “urechiușcă” come from?

urechiușcă (Romanian) comes from Romanian -ușcă, from Old Church Slavonic -ушька.

urechiușcă (Romanian): earwig

Definitions

  1. earwig

Ancestry of “urechiușcă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanian-ușcăForms feminine diminutives of nouns
2Old Church Slavonic-ушька—
Every word from Old Church Slavonic -ушька →Every word from Romanian -ușcă →