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The "accepted" etymology (the one I have found again and again in Romanian and other sources) of Romanian word a merge, the most common word for "to walk, to go to", is, like in Wiktionary: Inherited …

It is common, even obligatory, for the etymology of Romanian words that don't have a clear Latin or Slavic root, to look next at the Albanian-Romanian linguistic connection. …

I would like to know more: how certain is that etymology? …

With the exception of French, most Romance languages have a lot of masculine singular nouns ending in o and u. That feature is very striking and catches the ear at first contact. I think this is obvio …

Reading the article "Where do mama/papa words come from?" by Larry Trask, linked in this answer (itself based on Roman Jakobson's 1959 article ‘Why “mama” and “papa”?’) we see that a condition for su …

I was looking at the etymology of the Romanian word comoară ("treasure", "hoard", "pile of precious things") and it seems based on the widespread Slavic form komora, meaning "room", "container", "chamber … (By the way, how solid is the Latin etymology for komora in Polish, Czech, Macedonian etc? …

other Romance languages is based on via (more here) the word for ”groom” (mire) might come from miles, ”soldier” - as said in Boerescu - Etimologii românești..., page 436: The often contested Latin etymology …

Although a closed question, reading THIS we find a link to Wictionary with the text: From Proto-Albanian *baltā (“marsh”), hypothetically from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰolHto- (“white > marsh”), a der …

I am curious about the obscure etymology of the Romanian word tărâm (realm, domain, world, geographical space -- usually a poetic word, like in the plural form alte tarâmuri = "other (foreign) realms", … So, a Hungarian-Cuman hypothesis for the etymology of my word seems to me the most probable. …

And in this case the morphological similarity is based on etymology, a vâna = ”to hunt”, vânător=hunter, vânătoare=hunt, come ultimately (through vulgar Latin *vēnāre < Latin vēnārī, vēnor) from the same …

Some context first: I am interested in the etymology of the Romanian word gâdila/gîdila ("to tickle; the â/î variation is only graphical: it's /ɨ/, the close central unrounded vowel which in Romanian usually …

I think I have an answer, based on the comments under the question. The answer is basically "no". The Romanian and Bulgarian form is common, and is of Slavic origin, and has to be considered separate …

"Amor" is a neologism in Romanian, much more recent than the Middle Ages suggested in another answer. Romanian dictionaries mark Latin as its origin, because it entered the language for the first time …

I am looking for the etymology of the Romanian verb a cicăli (to make reproaches repeatedly, to nag), which is reported of unknown origin, and I have found an almost identical word in Italian: cicalare … Semantically and formally they seem rather close to Italian cicalare, and their etymology is not very categorically proven, as onomatopoeic origin is suggested beside Latin *cistulāre<fistulāre ... …

The etymology of the English word is rather detailed on Wiktionay, going back to a PIE root: English sprint Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten … The link for Old Church Slavonic съпрѧтьнъ (sŭprętĭnŭ) link is void, and the others don't give any etymology. Is the Slavic sŭprętĭnŭ descending from the same PIE root? …