Where the Romanian word “oaie” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. ovis.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin ovem ← Proto-Italic owis ← Proto-Indo-European h₂ówis
- In film dialogue
- 14 times per million words · number 3,312 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 29 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 181 82 65 35 43 - Swap in a synonym
- creștin (Inherited Latin), credincios (Made in Romanian), grămadă (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card