köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀫𑀁 (āmaṃ), from Sanskrit आम् (ām), probably a variant of the sacred syllable ॐ (oṃ). The initial h- is emphatic, from Sanskrit हि (hi), ह (ha), or related to होना (honā). Doublet of ॐ (om).
köken: Borrowed from Bulgarian да (da). First attested in the 1810’s in the poems of Iancu Văcărescu, having entered the language from the common speech of Muntenia and spreading to other regions starting in the 1860’s. Before, Romanian used echo answers or a variety of affirmative adverbs including așa, adevărat or bine. da does not feature in Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian. An…
köken: Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e /ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g /-ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266. According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen…
köken: Clipping of כן. The spelling with ע (“'áyin”) is either influenced by its pronunciation in Yiddish or used to represent a glottal stop that substitutes original ן (“nún”).