Where the Romanian word “tâmp” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Din sl. tonpŭ. Cf. magh. tompa.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic тѫпъ ← Proto-Slavic tǫpъ
- In film dialogue
- 3.5 times per million words · number 7,491 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.4 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 2.0 11 2.4 1.3 2.6 - Swap in a synonym
- prost (Old Slavic), idiot (French), tâmpit (Made in Romanian), cretin (French), imbecil (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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