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Neighbouring Slavic languages

Where the Romanian word “lanț” comes from

From a neighbouring Slavic language.

DEX ’98 says
Din bg. lanec. → Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98
Wiktionary says
Hungarian (a different language)
The route, according to Wiktionary
Hungarian lánc ← gmh lanne ← sla ← gmh ← goh lanna
In film dialogue
30 times per million words · number 1,971 among spoken words
In Wikipedia
63 times per million words
In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–18491850–18741875–18991900–19241925–1949
10890666372
Swap in a synonym
sclavie (Made in Romanian), încarcera (Learned Latin), catenă (Learned Latin), imobiliza (French), încătușa (Made in Romanian), robie (Made in Romanian), întemnița (Made in Romanian), feedback (English)

Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card

More words from the same layer

da, școală, grijă, păstra, poliție, rus, obicei, ciudat, ba, grozav, ofițer, graniță