Termeni românești referitori la exploatarea tradițională a sării
Romanian Terminology Referring to the Traditional Salt Exploitation

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian terminology of traditional salt exploitation is less studied. This article aims to provide some Romanian terms and terminological phrases which are not recorded so far in the general dictionaries of Romanian, adding, where necessary, data referring to the earliest attestation of the word. The Romanian terms of traditional salt exploitation can be classified as follows: terms referring to the form in which the salt extracted from the deposit is presented, terms referring to the salt extraction, terms designating trades in traditional salt exploitation, and terms referring to the management of salt exploitation. Apart from the terms that develop among their meanings a specialized one (brazdă, bătător, coteț, găleată, etc.), there are also terms specific only to the salt exploitation domain, such as maglă “forced labour in a salt mine”, attested in some Slavonic documents, and formal “salt stone with dimensions and weight between the standard limits”, borrowed from Latin.

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