borcan
Romanian
Etymology
Uncertain. Possible etymologies:
- If an internal development, augmentative of boroacă (“swelling”) inherited from Latin verrūca (“wart”), or a cognate of Italian brocca, inherited from Vulgar Latin *brocca, borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόχοος (prókhoos, “vessel for water”).
- Borrowed from Hungarian bokál (“pitcher”) (possibly through Serbian), from Italian boccale, inherited from Late Latin baucalis, from Ancient Greek βαύκαλις (baúkalis, “container used for the cooling of wine”).
- Borrowed from Hungarian borkancsó (“wine pitcher”) (from bor (“wine”) + kancsó (“pitcher, jug”)) or borkanna (“wine jug”) (from bor (“wine”) + kanna (“jug, pot”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /borˈkan/
- Rhymes: -an
- Hyphenation: bor‧can
Noun
borcan n (plural borcane)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | borcan | borcanul | borcane | borcanele | |
| genitive-dative | borcan | borcanului | borcane | borcanelor | |
| vocative | borcanule | borcanelor | |||
Descendants
References
- ^ Attila Benő (2008) Kontaktológia: A nyelvi kapcsolatok alapfogalmai[1] (in Hungarian), Kolozsvár [Cluj-Napoca]: Egyetemi Műhely Kiadó, →ISBN, page 31: “m. borkanna > r. borcan ’befőttesüveg’ > m. (n. s.) borkán ’befőttesüveg’ ― Hungarian borkanna > Romanian borcan ’Mason jar’ > Hungarian (nonstandard) borkán ’Mason jar’”
- “borcan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025