Talk:List of Romania county name etymologies

message: Couldn't Caraş be from the Turkish word for dark? The river Karašica a bit more west is named like that... --Joy [shallot] 10:27, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right. AFAIK, Caraş county was part of a Turkish province. In Moldavia and Wallachia there are no Ottoman Turkish names because Turks/Muslims were not allowed to settle. Bogdan | Talk 10:59, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Caraş

message: As far as I know, Sibiu comes form the name of the rivers which flows through it - Cibin, which is named after a fortress (probably of roman origin) - Cibinium (Cibiniensis) See:. The name was kept because the germans kept the name of the river - Zibin. -Orioane 13:37, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That name is in Medieval Latin, i.e. it was a Latinization of a local non-Latin name. There is no mentioning of a "Cibinensis" or "Cibinium" river or fortress in ancient times. bogdan | Talk 13:41, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sibiu 

message: :In Romanian, the word means "little valley", out of vale;
That is unlikely because of the accent (Vầlcea) is different from (Vâlceà). bogdan 11:57, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vâlcea 

message: The name Năsăud can hardly derive from the German name Nussdorf. Which linguistic source gives this explanation? What, in general, is the source of this list? Fransvannes 08:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mostly the Romanian version of the article, which does a few sources that were not ported over. I'd do it, but I do not knoe enough romanian to apply  to them. Circeus 13:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Năsăud 

message: Sălaj: Some hungarian etymologists claim that the name Zilah (and of course the county Szilágy) comes from the Latin "silva", which means forest.
Maramures: Maybe from "mare-mures" (mára-maros)- meaning great Maros --> for the Tisa river (Tisza).
In addition: Many city and county names in Moldova have in fact hungarian origin, because Moldova was a part of the Hungarian Kingdom in the 14th century --> at this time the first cities in Moldova began to develope, and because the rulers (e.g. Nagy Lajos) were hungarians, they got hungarian names (although the population wasn't mainly hungarian) --> their names lasted until today. Öcsi 21:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Names 

message: It might be of Sarmatian / Iranian origin. Well attested in indo-iranian languages. Very numerous iranian toponymes are to be found in western Romania, reconoscible after the termination and , specific to Iranian languages (Zarand, Tamand, Zerind, etc).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.113.192.216 (talk) 23:06, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Elaborate on that -and suffix. I do not remember a specific affix like that in ossetian (both dialects, iron and digor) and bessides that, the 'crișana subdialect' (and others) had a specific split of accentuated 'n' and 'm' in 'nd', 'mb': plămân (lung)- plămândă, carâm (leggings) - cărâmb, scrum (ash) - scrumb and so on. It's found in other IE idioms, but the most affected are the albanian dialects.
For Bihor was proposed also a balcanic bigor, bigorr (carstic spring) found in Albanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Aromanian dialect and western Romania (Banat, Apuseni). It was thought to be Albanian in origin, but it is too wide spread to be just Albanian.
http://www.dacoromania.inst-puscariu.ro/articole/2004-2005_14.pdf
 The change of intervocalic 'g' to 'h' appears in other words: dihanie (monster) - diganie, digoare  (stench)- dihoare/duhoare.
(Sorin5780 (talk) 12:57, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bihor 

message: Dâmboviţa - Uncertain, possibly Slavic - Named after the Dâmboviţa River, of unknown etymology.
I really don't have citations to support this, but it is quite logical to assume that the first part would be the actual word "dâmb" (Romanian substratum word meaning "hill", "knoll").
As for the second part, "-oviţa", I'm not quite sure, but I think it could possibly be:
-ovo/-evo (Slavic suffix indicating a placename, meaning "belonging to") + -iţa (-itsa in Slavic; a suffix indicating the feminine gender, a common practice in Romanian toponymy). So you get: dâmb-ov(o)-iţa.
It's also good to consider that there are also other names, such as "Dâmbovicioara" (a tributary river). -ioara/-ioară being a diminutive suffix (also for the feminine form). This would appear, in my opinion, if there already was an entity such as "Dâmbov" (hypothetical, but not far-fetced; it would mean "belonging to the hill/of the hill"), which you could later manipulate according to your needs. By this I mean that it probably evolved at first from a substratum word with only one Slavic suffix, to which others were added later.
Hirx (talk) 08:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dâmboviţa 

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