Etymograph

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Pleșoiu

Pleșoiu comes from Romanian pleș ‘bald’, and goes back to Proto-Slavic *plěšь.

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*plěšь‘bald patch’reconstructed
  2. Old Church Slavonicmodernплѣшь
  3. Romanianc. 1500–presentpleș‘bald’
  4. Romanian, derivedc. 1500–presentPleșu
  5. Romanian, derivedc. 1500–presentPleșoiu
  6. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*plěšь‘bald patch’reconstructed
  2. Old Church Slavonicmodernплѣшь
  3. Romanianc. 1500–presentpleș‘bald’
  4. Romanian, derivedc. 1500–presentPleșu
  5. Romanian, derivedc. 1500–presentPleșoiu
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A commune of Olt County, Romania.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Slavic *plěšь / Pleșoiu