Where does “sikaleti” come from?

sikaleti (Tongan) comes from English cigarette, from French cigarette, from French cigare, from Spanish cigarro, from Spanish cigarra, from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicada — cicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...

sikaleti (Tongan): cigarette

Definitions

  1. cigarette

Ancestry of “sikaleti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcigaretteTobacco or other substances, in a thin roll...
2Frenchcigarettecigarette
3Frenchcigarecigar
4Spanishcigarrocigar; cigarette
5Spanishcigarracicada
6Vulgar Latin*cicār(r)a
7Latincicadacicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...
Every word from Latin cicadaEvery word from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)aEvery word from Spanish cigarra
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