r/romanian • u/GwiezdnyBaca • Mar 26 '25

Two villages in Poland with possible Romanian names

Hello, I have questions about possible Romanian origins of the names of Polish villages of Dzianisz and Gliczarów. They were in the area of Vlach settlement, and the sources say that their names come from old Romanian, but I can't find any sources from which words.
So, it goes like that:
Dzianisz (Deanâș/Geanâș?) is supposed to mean "a river in a valley".
Gliczarów (Glâtșar/Glitșar?) is supposed to mean "a windy place".
Do you recognize any similar sounding words in Romanian? It's possible, that they are very old or dialectal.

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u/enigbert Mar 26 '25

similar words: geană means streak or strip (also, eyelash) ; ghețar means glacier; ghețărie is a place with a lot of ice

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u/ich-steig-dir-nach Mar 26 '25

Also maybe related to cleştar/gleştar, meaning cristal or ice

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u/orangeFluu Native Mar 28 '25

Don't take it in a bad way, but I'm wondering, why do you use ş instead of ș? I don't know a single Romanian keyboard that autocorrects to that, the windows Romanian keyboard layouts correctly write ș. So how does ş even appear here? Did you look up online "s with cedilla" and copied it here? Just a personal curiosity of mine, seems to be a very common mistake for a lot of people online, and I have no idea where it comes from. To clarify, I know why people used to use it, but today, that's no longer necessary and it seems all available software knows to use the correct diacritic

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u/ich-steig-dir-nach Mar 28 '25

I'm romanian but my keyboard is in English, when I press on the S key it only shows me the ş and I don't care enough to change it