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genune

“genune” is a Romanian word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. chasm, abyss, precipice
  2. sea

In Romanian

  1. (livr.) prăpastie adâncă, abis, hău.

Etymology

Probably from Latin caerula (“pertaining to the sea”) (likely through an initial early Romanian form *cerure or *cerură, which underwent changes due to dissimilation and other processes, perhaps derhotacization; see some of the above dialectal or archaic alternative forms such as gerure, which were more conservative in pronunciation); some variants possibly derive from the form caerulea. Another…

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