funingine
“funingine” is a Romanian word. Its meaning in English:
noun
In Romanian
- materie neagră sau neagră-brună, rezultată din arderea incompletă a corpurilor organice, alcătuită mai ales din cărbune, care se depune pe partea interioară a coșurilor, a sobelor etc.
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fūlīginem, accusative singular of fūlīgo, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂li-, from *dʰewh₂-. The expected Romanian result would have been *furigine, but was probably modified through assimilation or a hypercorrection to rhotacism.
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