Where the Romanian word “chinez” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 2 (s.m. pl. -i):
Din scr. knez, magh. kenéz.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Made in Romanian (a different language)
- In film dialogue
- 30 times per million words · number 1,942 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 106 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 7.4 4.1 16 11 3.2 - Swap in a synonym
- primar (Inherited Latin), chinezesc (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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