Word Origin Summary

Moldova is attested in Romanian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰Gothicderived from
2. *muldōProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Молдова

  Kyrgyz · derived from

• Môn-đô-va

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• Moldova

  Latvian · borrowed from

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