moină

Related to or derived from moale (plural moi), or from muia, with the suffix -ină. Other attempts have been made to link it to a derivative of a Vulgar Latin *mollināre (cf. the verb moina), or from *mollimen, or *mollio, mollionis, or to a lost early Romanian *moiu, from a Latin root *mollius. One theory suggests a parallel with doină. A derivation from Slavic močiti is improbable.[1]

moină f (plural moine)

1. thaw (warmer, humid weather following the cold of winter; warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen)
2. fallow (arable lend left uncultivated and unseeded for a year)

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