köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia, from Latin verēcundia, possibly influenced by cunnus (“vagina”). Doublet of verecondia, which was borrowed. Compare Galician vergoña ~ vergonza, but Portuguese and Occitan vergonha, Sicilian virigogna ~ vrigogna, Spanish vergüenza.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vergonna (displacing collateral form vergonça, compare Spanish vergüenza), from Vulgar Latin *verecunnia, from the Latin verēcundia. Compare French vergogne, Catalan vergonya. Doublet of verecúndia.
köken: Unknown. Compare Latin roseus. Probably from the verb rușina, itself from roși (“turn red, blush”), from roșu. Other explanations derive it from a Vulgar Latin root *rōsīnus (“rosy”), *russiō or *rōsiō. May possibly be also from a Romanian *rușiciune, from roși. Compare Aromanian arushini, arusheni, rusheni, Megleno-Romanian rușǫni. Compare typologically Sanskrit लज्जा (lajjā), from the root रज्…