strungă

See also: strunga, Strunga, Strungă, and strungã

Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a substrate word from a Paleo-Balkan language within the linguistic area of Proto-Romanian and solely identifiable as Thraco-Dacian *στροῦνγα (*stroῦnga, “tightened, narrowed, strung”) due to comprising all Thracian, Dacian, Moesian and Getean and thus imaginable language territories in its phylum position but, regarding any meaning, the root has also been phonetically improbably related to Thracian *στρουμάν (*stroumán, “stream”). The latter can be deduced from the Ancient Greek river name Στρυμών (Strumṓn, “Strymon”). Perhaps cognate to Latvian strùoga (“alleyway, forest path”), which points at a Thraco-Dacian origin on grounds of sound changes common with general Baltic and lexicosimilarities established. Alternatively, borrowed from Albanian shtrungë (an early form of it before postalveolarization). Maybe related to or derived from strung (“lathe”) with great semantic difficulties that may not be overcome. Compare Aromanian strungã.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstrunɡə]

Noun

strungă f (plural strungi)

1. narrow runway near a fold where sheep are milked
2. (by extension) narrow passage
3. (colloquial) canyon, strait

   Synonyms: defileu, strâmtoare

4. (colloquial) tooth gap, tooth space

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	strungă	strunga		strungi	strungile
genitive-dative	strungi	strungii		strungi	strungilor
vocative	strungă, strungo			strungilor

Derived terms

• strungar
• strunguliță
• strunguță
• strungăreață

See also

• strung

References

• Academia Română (2009), "strungă" in Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic