Where the Romanian word “cerneală” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -uri):
Din sl. črŭnilo.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -i):
Cerni + suf. -eală.
→ Made in Romanian · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic чрьнило
- In film dialogue
- 7.3 times per million words · number 4,969 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 6.9 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 5.6 16 18 14 - Swap in a synonym
- tristețe (Made in Romanian), jale (Old Slavic), amărăciune (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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