Where the Romanian word “jigni” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din scr. žignuti.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Neighbouring Slavic languages (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Serbo-Croatian žignuti
- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,095 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 1.7 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 8.0 13 18 18 - Swap in a synonym
- atinge (Inherited Latin), lovi (Old Slavic), răni (Old Slavic), strica (Inherited Latin), insulta (French), încinge (Inherited Latin), ofensa (French), leza (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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