burtă

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *umbulita (“small navel”), clipped from Vulgar Latin *umbulicus, from Latin umbilīcus (“navel”), with [um] being reanalyzed as the feminine indefinite article o at some stage as same is evidenced by related Romanian buric. The latter may have provoked such analogy. On grounds of phonetic difficulties with considered Albanian bark, rather unlikely a substrate word.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbur.tə]

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burtă f (plural burți)

1. belly

   Synonyms: pântece, abdomen, vintre

• burtos

• stomac