Where the Romanian word “praf” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Din sl. prachŭ.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic прахъ ← Proto-Slavic porxъ ← Proto-Indo-European pers-
- In film dialogue
- 53 times per million words · number 1,277 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 59 38 62 113 68 - Swap in a synonym
- nimic (Inherited Latin), ucide (Inherited Latin), distruge (Italian), înșela (Inherited Latin), cheltui (Hungarian), irosi (Unknown origin), cocaină (French), pulbere (Inherited Latin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
More words from the same layer
trebui, nevoie, război, prea, primi, prieten, drum, opri, iubi, vreme, trăi, sfânt