Where the Romanian word “rai” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Din sl. raj.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic рай ← Proto-Slavic rajь ← ira-pro raHíš ← iir-pro raHíš ← Proto-Indo-European reh₁ís
- In film dialogue
- 26 times per million words · number 2,159 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 99 78 45 44 18 - Swap in a synonym
- cer (Inherited Latin), paradis (French), eden (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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