Where does “velă” come from?

velă (Romanian) comes from Italian vela, from Latin vēla, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Italic *wekslom.

velă (Romanian): sail

Definitions

  1. sail

Ancestry of “velă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianvelasail; sailing; inflection of velare: ##...
2Latinvēla—
3Latinvēluma cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
4Proto-Italic*wekslom—
Every word from Proto-Italic *wekslom →Every word from Latin vēlum →Every word from Latin vēla →