Where the Romanian word “zori” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (s.m.):
Din sl. zorĭ (gen. pl. al lui zorja).
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.f.):
Din sl. zorĭ (gen. pl. al lui zorja).
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (vb.):
Din zor.
→ Made in Romanian · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic зорꙗ ← Proto-Slavic zořa
- In film dialogue
- 19 times per million words · number 2,627 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 22 84 94 140 76 - Swap in a synonym
- mereu (Unknown origin), grăbi (Neighbouring Slavic languages), totdeauna (Made in Romanian), presa (French), accelera (French), îndemna (Inherited Latin), auroră (French), sili (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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