Where the Romanian word “hei” comes from
From Hungarian.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.n.):
Din magh. hely "loc".
→ Hungarian · DEX '96 - Homonym 2 (interj.):
Onomatopee.
→ Made in Romanian · DEX '96 - In film dialogue
- 898 times per million words · number 129 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 9.8 45 32 26 13 - Swap in a synonym
- curte (Inherited Latin), dependință (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
oraș, fel, maghiar, seamă, locui, gând, celui, uriaș, alcătui, marfă, bănui, pahar