Where the Romanian word “soi” comes from
From Turkish.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -uri):
Din tc. soy.
→ Turkish · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -e):
Et. nec. Cf. zoaie.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (vb.):
Din soi.
→ Made in Romanian · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Turkish (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Ottoman Turkish صوی ← trk-cmn-pro soy
- In film dialogue
- 12 times per million words · number 3,635 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 30 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 96 80 70 37 23 - Swap in a synonym
- fel (Hungarian), ales (Made in Romanian), gen (Learned Latin), specie (Learned Latin), categorie (French), varietate (French), murdări (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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