Abstract:
Attributing the origin of the
agricultural, horticultural and agro-food
terms of the Romanian language is a
controversial domain. The latest two
etymological dictionaries analysing
thousands of the Romanian words in terms
of their origin include an approximately
equal number of more than 300 terms from
the above-mentioned domain. The
etymological dictionary elaborated by
Ciorănescu Al., 2002, gives these terms a
Latin, Slavic origin or other European
languages, which belong to some peoples
with whom Romanians had historical
relationships. This dictionary does not
estimate the amount of words coming from
substratum to more than 2%. The
etymological dictionary elaborated by
Vinereanu M., 2008, found that most of the
mentioned words belonged to the pre-Latin,
Thracian-Getic and Thracian-Illyrian
substratum. The Latin or Slavic origin terms
are found at a less proportion, as well as the
mentioned terms from diverse European
languages.
