Where the Romanian word “cneaz” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -ji):
Din rus. kneaz, ucr. knjaz.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -zi):
Din rus. kneaz, ucr. knjaz.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic кънѧзь ← Proto-Slavic kъnędzь ← Proto-Germanic kuningaz
- In film dialogue
- under once per million · number 17,341 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 19 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 2.6 107 4.6 4.6
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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