Where the Romanian word “moș” comes from
Made in Romanian.
- DEX ’98 says
Din moașă (derivat regresiv).
→ Made in Romanian · DEX '98- In the main count it counts as: Unknown origin
- Wiktionary says
- Unknown origin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Albanian moshë ← Latin annōsus
- In film dialogue
- 36 times per million words · number 1,693 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 22 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 114 214 370 236 70 - Swap in a synonym
- niciodată (Made in Romanian), unchi (Inherited Latin), urs (Inherited Latin), bunic (Made in Romanian), strămoș (Made in Romanian), ascendent (Learned Latin), înaintaș (Made in Romanian), străbun (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
din, pentru, cel, dacă, sau, prin, ceva, numi, despre, îî, dintre, vorbi