Where the Romanian word “graniță” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din bg., scr. granica.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '96- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic граница ← Proto-Slavic granica
- In film dialogue
- 30 times per million words · number 1,937 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 170 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 13 34 31 23 - Swap in a synonym
- margine (Inherited Latin), frontieră (French), hotar (Hungarian), limită (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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