List of Dacian words
The Romanian language contains about 200-300 words claimed by many Romanian scholars to be of Dacian language origin. A few of these also have cognates in the Albanian language. Some of these etymologies are more controversial than others: because there are no significant surviving written examples of the Dacian language, it is difficult to verify, and because the Dacian language may have been relatively close to Latin, some of these words (e.g. "mare" for "large") could be transformations of Latin words.Examples of such words in Romanian are:
- prunc - "baby"
- copil - "child"; in Albanian "kopil" = bastard
- moş - "old man"; in Albanian "mosha" = age, "moshuar" = of old age
- brad - "fir"; Albanian "bredh"
- caciula - "cap"; Albanian "kėsulė"
- copac - "tree"; Albanian "kopaē/e" = beating
- buză - "lip"; this word has the same meaning in Albanian.
- grumaz - "neck"; in Albanian, "gurmaz" is throat and it is often used in a derogatory manner
- gard - "fence"; Albanian "gardh"
- strugure - "grape"
- mazăre - "pea"
- balaur - "dragon"
- a răbda - "to endure"
- a speria - "to scare"
- tare - "hard" or "loud"
- mare - "big"
- bucuros - "happy"; "bukurosh" in Albanian is "beautiful child, boy."