Where the Romanian word “dădacă” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. dadá, tc. dadı (influențat de neneacă, babacă, duducă etc.).
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek δάδα
- In film dialogue
- 10 times per million words · number 4,048 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- under once per million
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 9.7 3.2 3.9 1.2 - Swap in a synonym
- bonă (French), doică (Neighbouring Slavic languages), nursă (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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