Where the Romanian word “ciocan” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -e):
Din bg. čokan, scr. čokanj.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -i):
Din scr. čokan.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Turkish (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish چكیچ ← trk-oat ← trk-pro čekük ← Proto-Slavic čekanъ
- In film dialogue
- 14 times per million words · number 3,213 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 14 18 14 23 15 - Swap in a synonym
- insista (French), plictisi (Greek), cocean (Neighbouring Slavic languages), cotor (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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