Where does “verișorică” come from?
verișorică (Romanian) comes from Romanian verișoară, from Romanian vară, from Romanian -ă, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
verișorică (Romanian): small female cousin
Definitions
- small female cousin
Ancestry of “verișorică”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | verișoară | A female cousin |
| 2 | Romanian | vară | summer; female cousin |
| 3 | Romanian | -ă | Forms certain female equivalent nouns |
| 4 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |