Where the Romanian word “basm” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Din sl. basnĩ.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic баснь ← Proto-Slavic basnь
- In film dialogue
- 6.0 times per million words · number 5,550 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 18 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 1.2 57 56 46 25 - Swap in a synonym
- poveste (Old Slavic), legendă (French), fantastic (French), povestire (Made in Romanian), minciună (Inherited Latin), fabulă (French), ireal (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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