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Today a nice rainy sunday, a nice day to read in a lexicon, initiated by reading this :

                                                                                                      lexicon-time!

So,  I will share with you, sitting at my desk, with a view at the freshgreen robiniatrees in my street,listening to a compilation of worldmusic ('chinnchinn"!), some old Romanian words I stumbled upon... :

BUBURUZ   -tiny ball, pimple, ladybird

CAPRAREATA   -place where the sheep rest

CÎRLIGATURA  -the place where the road turns

CNEZ  -free farmer (may there have been many of them!)

DRUM   -way,road

FARAON   -tzigane (hungarian gypsy,this words root:egypt,anyway: roma,sinti)

FÎNTÎNA   -fountain

GANGUR   -golden oriole

GRAMATIC  -scribe (from greek: gramma,lettersign)

HITLEAN   -perfidious

IEZERCAN   -body of water smaller and less deep than a pool

IZLAZ   -pasture

JDER   -skin of a martyr

MITITEL    -very small

MOHORÎT   - sombre,sad
PAZNIC   -guardian
PETEC   -rag,piece
PIERSIC   -peach-tree (latin: persicum,greek: persikos)
POSTELNICEASA   -wife of a postelnic
PROROC   -prophet
SPERLA   -warm ashes
SPINZURATOARE   -gallows
TAINITA   -secret place
TIPSIE   -tray to carry plates
TRANDAFIR   -rose (greek : triandafylla = 30 leaves)
VÎRF   -  top (of a mountain)
VULTUREL   -small vulture
ZADAR  - in vain
ZBUCIUMAT   -tormented,troubled
ZUGRAV   - decoration painter, painter of icons (greek: zografos =painter)

ZMEURET   -place covered with raspberries