Where the Romanian word “potoli” comes from
From a neighbouring Slavic language.
- DEX ’98 says
Din scr. potuliti, bg. potulja.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic потолити ← Proto-Slavic toliti
- In film dialogue
- 13 times per million words · number 3,556 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 2.9 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 15 29 35 86 74 - Swap in a synonym
- termina (French), încheia (Inherited Latin), calma (French), liniști (Made in Romanian), sfârși (Old Slavic), alina (Inherited Latin), îmblânzi (Made in Romanian), domoli (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
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