Where the Romanian word “zăpadă” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
Cf. sl. zapadati "a cădea".
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic западати
- In film dialogue
- 34 times per million words · number 1,785 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 44 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 44 50 58 137 134 - Swap in a synonym
- nea (Inherited Latin), ninsoare (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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