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Where does “vorbă” come from?

vorbă (Romanian) comes from Latin verbum, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

vorbă (Romanian): word; talk, talking, speaking; telling, relation

Definitions

  1. word; talk, talking, speaking; telling, relation

Ancestry of “vorbă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinverbumword; proverb, saying; verb
2Ancient GreekλόγοςThat which is said: word, sentence, speech,...
3Ancient GreekλέγωI put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Words derived from “vorbă”

  • vorbăreț
  • vorbi
  • vorbire
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