Aromanian words first recorded in the 19th century

1. The horse is borrowed from Turkish at (“horse”). Eren finds the word, for an animal that is ridden or draws or carries loads, in all the old and modern Turkic dialects. The Turkish word has…

It is inherited from Latin deintro (“from within”), a compound of dē (“from, down from”) and intrō (“inside, within”). Papahagi derives the short form through the stages di tu and di tru, that is…

It is inherited from Latin exeō (“to go out”), formed from ex- (“out of”) and eō (“to go”). Pascu explains the forms with ⟨n⟩ in the unstressed syllables from a compound *inexeō, which arose from…

It is inherited from Late Latin facia (“face”), the popular form of faciēs (“appearance, face”); Wiktionary's Latin record notes that facia is attested in Vergilius around the 7th century. De Vaan…

It is inherited from Latin grevis (“heavy”), the popular form of gravis (“heavy”); Pascu also sets up *grevus. The change of vowel is put down to the influence of levis (“light”), its opposite, and…

It is inherited from Latin longus (“long”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *dlongo- and Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰ-o-, and compares Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs) and Old High German lang. The word is…

It is inherited from Latin Mārtius (“(the month) of Mars, March”), the adjective of Mārs (“the god Mars”) with the suffix -ius, used as a noun for mēnsis Mārtius. De Vaan traces the name of the god…

Its origin is unknown: Papahagi leaves it without an etymology and marks it with a question mark. He reports two proposals: Nikolaidis derived it from Latin mansum, and an article in the journal…

It is inherited from Latin mē (“me”), the accusative of the first-person pronoun, in a longer form whose ending is not clear. Papahagi starts from *mene. Ciorănescu reports the reconstruction *me ne…

It is inherited from Latin neque (“and not, nor”), which Latin formed from the negation ne- (“not”) and the enclitic -que (“and”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *nekʷe (“and not”) and traces the…

It is borrowed from Modern Greek πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”). Medieval Greek had πόλεμος, also πόλομος (pólomos), for an armed conflict. The Greek word goes back to Ancient Greek πόλεμος (pólemos…

1. The preposition is inherited from Latin per (“through, across”). It is the same word as Romanian pe (older pre), Megleno-Romanian pri and Istro-Romanian pre; Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu set…

Its origin is uncertain. Giuglea proposed that it is inherited from Latin exīlia (“fine stuff”), the neuter plural of exīlis (“thin, fine”); REW accepts this, glossing the Aromanian word "fine dust…

1. The preposition ti “for” is a reduced form of trã: Cunia refers ti to trã, and Papahagi's dictionary refers it to tã and to the same preposition. The fuller trã is inherited from Latin inter…

It is formed from Aromanian tsi + -va, from the pronoun tsi (“what”) and an indefinite ending. Tsi is from Latin quid (“what”). Wiktionary compares Romanian ceva, Megleno-Romanian tsiva and…

1. The preposition is a shortened form of tru, which lost its r; Pascu files it among the forms of that word, Papahagi's dictionary refers from one to the other, and Cunia defines it there. That…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ūrulō, a dissimilated form of Latin ululō (“to howl”). Pascu gives the Latin ululō directly. De Vaan calls ululō an onomatopoeic verb imitating a u-like sound; its…

1. The wine is inherited from Latin vīnum (“wine”). It is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian vin, Megleno-Romanian vin and Istro-Romanian vir. The Latin word lives on all over…

The noun yis “dream” is inherited from Latin vīsum (“something seen, a vision”), the neuter of the past participle of videō (“to see”). In Latin it meant an appearance, especially one seen in a…