Where does “verișoară” come from?
verișoară (Romanian) comes from Romanian vară, from Romanian -ă, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
verișoară (Romanian): A female cousin
Ancestry of “verișoară”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Romanian | vară | summer; female cousin |
| 2 | Romanian | -ă | — |
| 3 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |