Where does “feta” come from?
feta (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian fetta, from Latin findere, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyd-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰey- — bee.
feta (Serbo-Croatian): slice
Ancestry of “feta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | fetta | slice; piece |
| 2 | Latin | findere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeyd- | to split |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰey- | bee |