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This is a list of English words of Romanian origin. hora – a type of circle dance originating in the Balkans but also found in other countries. Its English etymology includes Hebrew, Romanian and Turkish. mineriad – term used to name violent interventions of miners
Mocăniță on Valea Vaserului. A Mocăniță (Romanian pronunciation: [mokəˈnit͡sə]) is a narrow-gauge railway in Romania, most notably in Maramureș, Transylvania, and Bukovina. Archetypically, they are situated in mountainous areas and the locomotives operating on them (which themselves can also be referred to as mocăniță s) are steam ...
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List of English words of Romani origin. These are words in the English language which potentially come from Romani. chav (wikt:chav) – an anti-social youth (from chavi "child") [1][2] cosh (wikt:cosh) – a weapon, truncheon, baton (from košter "stick") cove (wikt:cove) – British-English colloquial term meaning a person or chap (from kova ...
According to Romanian historian Ion I. Russu [ro], 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.
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 ...
Some nouns have two different diminutives, each with a different meaning: bloem (flower) → bloem pje (lit. "small flower") This is the regularly formed diminutive. bloem (flower) → bloem etje (lit. also "small flower", but meaning bouquet). pop (doll) → pop je (lit. "small doll", but it is also a term of endearment).
In Romania, a country with a sizable Romani minority (3.3% of the total population), there is a unified teaching system of the Romani language for all dialects spoken in the country. This is primarily a result of the work of Gheorghe Sarău , who made Romani textbooks for teaching Romani children in the Romani language. [ 51 ]