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Greek Catholic (or Uniate) priests were the first Romanian intellectuals to make efforts to demonstrate the Latin origin of Romanian in Transylvania during the 18th century. [16] They developed a Latin-based alphabet to replace the Cyrillic writing system and promoted the use of Latin terms in place of words of Slavic origin. [16]
According to Romanian historian Ion I. Russu , there are supposedly over 160 Romanian words of Dacian origin, representing, together with derivates, 10% of the basic Romanian vocabulary. [ 1 ] Below is a list of Romanian words believed by early scholars to be of Dacian origin, which have also been attributed to other origins.
It is derived from the Slavic words Bog/Boh (Cyrillic: Бог), meaning "god", and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning "given". The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theodore (Theodotus, Theodosius) or Hebrew Matthew with the same meaning. [1] The name is also used as a surname in Hungary, Ukraine. Bogdana is the feminine version of the ...
The name is considered Hungarian or a derivation from Proto-Slavic byk (meaning "ox" or "bull"), or of Cuman/Pecheneg origin. The region was very suitable for raising cattle. Bihor: Hungarian, Slavic: The county's name is the Romanian equivalent of the former Bihar County, which originates from the city of Bihar.
In the Russian dialect (Novgorod) the obsolete word сва́рог, svarog meaning "fire" and "blacksmith", is preserved. [5] The Romanian word sfarog, meaning "something burnt, charred, dried", was probably borrowed from an unspecified South Slavic language, probably Bulgarian, and the source word is reconstructed as *svarogъ. [6]
Romanian has inherited about 2000 Latin words through Vulgar Latin, sometimes referred to as Danubian Latin in this context, that form the essential part of the lexis and without them communication would not be possible. 500 of these words are found in all other Romance languages, and they include prepositions and conjunctions (ex: cu, de, pe, spre), numerals (ex: unu, doi, trei), pronouns (ex ...
Doamne, ocrotește-i pe români" (transl. "God, protect the Romanians") is a Romanian patriotic song. One of the most famous parts of the song refers to Romania as săracă țară bogată ("you poor, rich country"). [1] Famous singers of the song include Veta Biriș, Nicolae Furdui Iancu and Sava Negrean Brudașcu . [2]
In Romanian, there is a word sfarog meaning "something burnt, charred, dried". It is believed that this word was borrowed into Romanian [10] [14] most likely from an unspecified South Slavic language, possibly Bulgarian, [10] and according to Zubov, the broadest and most obvious meaning of the Slavic word has found its way into Romanian. [5]