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Romanian's ancestor, maybe
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moldavian
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Word definitions for moldavian in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (n.); 1760 (adj.), from Moldavia + -ian .
Usage examples of moldavian.
The result of this fascinating cultural mix is that Belgium has a number of official languages, including French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Cajun, Moldavian, and Frantic Arm Gestures.
And three traitorous officers, reinforced by a handful of men-at-arms they had suborned to their cause, had caught me alone, away from my Moldavian bodyguard.
Someone had given her a bottle of heavy Moldavian red wine, and it had gone to her head.
It consisted chiefly of Moldavian pilgrims, who to make their good work even more than complete had begun by visiting the shrine of the Virgin in Egypt, and were now going on to Jerusalem.
For the most part it seemed to flourish in vain, and to be destined to be put by for another season to dream, bulblike, of the coming summer in the quiet of Moldavian and Transylvanian homes.
Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a midwife.
But the truth was that Dracula saw his coming defeat, for the Hungarian and Moldavian forces had recently departed, leaving him vulnerable to the Turks.
During part of the feast, so that Graham should have leisure to eat, Sciahan spoke through a Moldavian dragoman, telling Jack about the Syrian campaign in 1799, when he and Sir Sidney Smith repelled Buonaparte from Acre, and then about his manoeuvres with the Naval Brigade in the days that led up to the battle of Aboukir.
Sakharov had been forced to withdraw from the Dobrudja, and all that was left of Rumania was its Moldavian province, less than one-third of the kingdom, with its capital near the Russian frontier at Jassy.
In three days more the number of prisoners increased to 7000, the key to the defence of the Moldavian mountains was threatened at Adjudul, and the Court prepared to leave Jassy and take refuge in Russian territory.
A variety of cat-mint called Moldavian balm is used in Germany for flavoring food.
Scandinavian panicled oats, Moldavian corn, Italian cinquantino corn, and the North American and Soviet varieties of corn, grown in southern Russia and the Mississippi lowlands.
Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Georgians, Ukranians, Uzbeks, Khirgizians, Moldavians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, and dozens of other Soviet cultural and linguistic minorities, which nearly a century of forced association had failed to homogenize into a "Russian" people, would vote with their feet and secede from central control.