How the Romanians Say it, in the People’s Words Romanian Words in Latin Transylvanian Documents
How the Romanians Say it, in the People’s Words Romanian Words in Latin Transylvanian Documents

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the use of Romanian and common nouns in various Latin Transylvanian medieval documents, as well as their importance in the reconstruction of our past. Some proper names are easily identifiable, others have been changed entirely after being used in parallel with Hungarian names, and others simply received a Hungarian ending. Most common names referred to names of social categories, functions, authorities, status, and had a Latin and Romanian-Slavic origin, similarly to the name of people. These names are important not only from a historical point of view, but olso from a philological one; through them, one can trace the specificity of a world that sometimes allows itself to be descovered with difficulty under the coating of chancellery language.

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