Where the Romanian word “roi” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Din sl. roj.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -uri):
Din sl. roj.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (vb.):
Din bg. roja, scr. rojiti.
→ Neighbouring Slavic languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic рои ← Proto-Slavic rojь
- In film dialogue
- 3.2 times per million words · number 7,859 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 9.8 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 4.9 23 16 24 9.8 - Swap in a synonym
- plin (Inherited Latin), saturat (Made in Romanian), mișuna (Unknown origin)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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