Where does “vas” come from?

vas (Romanian) comes from Latin vāsum, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

vas (Romanian): vessel (including blood vessels), general term for receptacle or container (such as a bowl, basin, dish, bucket, etc.)

Definitions

  1. vessel (including blood vessels), general term for receptacle or container (such as a bowl, basin, dish, bucket, etc.)

Ancestry of “vas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvāsumdish, vessel
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “vas”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Latin vāsum →