About the origin of a few romanian words....

From: Berzovan Alexandru
Message: 63907
Date: 2009-05-09

Hy to everybody,
I would like to ask you about the origin of a few rare Romanian words, and if they might came from Daco-Moesian language. In the Romanian etimological dictionaries I consulted so far, they have "unknown origin", that is an etiquette often aplied to possible Daco-Moesic substratum words...

"Momaie" with alternative forms: , with the following meaning : scarecrow, mound made of stons as marking sign, boogeyman, ghost.
"Muiama", with the meaning of ghost, or evil spirit, etc, that form i found it highly used in SW Romania only and does not appear in dictionaries.
"Momarlan", that is the name of Romanian pastoral population from Jiu Valley.

These have a large variety of derivate words also, I hope can be found some possible etimologies

with respect,
Alexandru