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Branch of the Indo-European language family including all languages descended from Latin, such as French, Spanish and Italian.
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Latin -que suffix in romance languages
Considering not the Latin form -que, but just a word meaning "and" that would somehow be present as a suffix, Romanian și appears as an etymological base in this way.
Without being an actual suffix th …
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Could the Romanian gând/gândi (thought/think) be ultimately of Latin and/or Albanian origin?
A gândi is in modern Romanian the common/main form of the verb "to think", based on the noun gând ("thought"). It is considered of Hungarian origin, from "gond".
I don't want to bluntly dismiss the Hu …
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Is there a Slavic equivalent of the Greek and Latin semantic transfer from "chest/vault" to ...
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", "cham …
- 780
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Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the ot...
even in core vocabulary ...Romanian so often seems to be based on different Latin roots than its sister languages
I think one can argue not only against a too strict meaning of that, but against its b …
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Can it be that the etymology of the Balkan root for "tickle" stretches as far as Korean?
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 …
- 780
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Can it be that the etymology of the Balkan root for "tickle" stretches as far as Korean?
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 …
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Are there Romance parallel descendants to Italian "cicalare" and Romanian "cicăli(re)"?
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: cicalar …
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