Talk:rachetă
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Imerologul in topic What's with the strange etymology?
What's with the strange etymology?
editThere are two words "rachetă" in Romanian. Rachetă (1) "rocket" is borrowed from German Rakete. Rachetă (2) "racquet, racket, implement with a handle connected to a round frame" is borrowed from French raquette. Romanian does not change the vowels arbitrarily when borrowing Italian words, so Italian rocchetta would have given **rochetă. Imerologul (talk) 22:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)