Where the Romanian word “maică” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Din bg., scr. majka.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Din bg., scr. majka.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Neighbouring Slavic languages (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Bulgarian ма́йка ← Serbo-Croatian mȃjka ← Proto-Slavic mati ← Proto-Indo-European méh₂tēr
- In film dialogue
- 16 times per million words · number 3,017 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 76 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 145 104 136 76 44 - Swap in a synonym
- mamă (Inherited Latin), niciodată (Made in Romanian), origine (Learned Latin), cauză (Learned Latin), izvor (Old Slavic), bunică (Made in Romanian), călugăriță (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
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