Where does “ambrela” come from?
ambrela (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian ombrello, from Late Latin umbrella, from Latin umbra, from Old Latin omra, from Proto-Indo-European h₂mr-u-.
ambrela (Serbo-Croatian): umbrella
Ancestry of “ambrela”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | ombrello | umbrella, brolly, gamp |
| 2 | Late Latin | umbrella | — |
| 3 | Latin | umbra | a shadow; a shade; a ghost |
| 4 | Old Latin | omra | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂mr-u- | — |