ROMANIAN WORDS FOR THE ROMANIAN SOUL – OMENIE
ROMANIAN WORDS FOR THE ROMANIAN SOUL – OMENIE

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian language is the common treasure of the Romanians, and its words reflect the specific and the unity of our people. An island of Latinity, surrounded by a Slavic sea, with Finno-Ugric elements, the Romanian language amazes to this day by its unity, resilience and beauty. These particularities represent permanent sources of analysis and reflection. The present communication ponders upon a key-word for the Romanian soul, a derived lexeme comprehending in it the essence of the material and spiritual life of our nation. Born in the area that gave birth to the famous ballad called Mioritza, the word omenie (humanity, humaneness, kindness) unites in the same thinking and with the same feeling the Romanians from everywhere. This entails its complexity and its untranslatable character.

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