Where the Romanian word “saltea” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. siltés.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Greek (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek σιλτής ← Ottoman Turkish شلته ← Persian چلته
- In film dialogue
- 8.8 times per million words · number 4,417 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 1.7 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 9.8 10 12 9.5 22
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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