Etymology

striga

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Today it means: A sharp bristle or hair-like scale. Full definition →

Latin striga ← Proto-Italic *strigā ← Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*streyg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*strengʰ-
  3. Proto-Italic*strigā
  4. Latinstriga
  5. English todaystriga

Borrowed from Latin striga (“a furrow”).

Words from the same roots

Latinstriga all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.