"pod"
Translation:attic
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How did Romanian get one word that means both 'attic' and 'bridge'? Are Romanian Attics Bridge-like?
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I never have heard pod used as attic, attic is rather mansardă, than pod.
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It's very common. Just google "în pod" or "din pod" or something like that and you'll see a bunch of examples.
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The word "pod" seems to come from the old Slavonic "podъ", meaning "under, below, beneath", which, if you think of it, it's what a bridge and attic have in common :P (though, when I think of a bridge, I think of "over, on top, etc.")
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Yes, according to DEX it comes from old slavic podъ, which had actually two meanings. As a preposition, it means "under, below, beneath"; and as a noun, it means "floor, ground". The latter may have given the sense of bridge to the Romanian word pod.
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I answered "attic, bridge" and was given an incorrect answer- the suggested answer was "bridge, attic"...
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An attic (or more usually, "loft" in British English) could be imagined as a space bridging over the rooms below.