Where the Romanian word “țap” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
Cf. alb. cap, cjap, scr. cap.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic цапъ ← Proto-Slavic capъ ← got ← Latin caper
- In film dialogue
- 6.2 times per million words · number 5,450 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 5.0 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 15 15 11 5.9 13
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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