Macedonian words in English

[Danko Sipka]

In Serbo-Croatian there is also pec"alba (attested for example in Anic's
1998 dictionary).
It also depends on how you define a Macedonian word. Komintaji (komita,
etc.) is originally from the Latin word comes. Oro is originally from Greek
choro/s.
I have looked it up in the electronic edition of the American Heritage
Dicitonary and there are no Macedonian etymologies attested. Same is true
for several other dictionaries, such as German Duden, French Le Petit
Robert, Italian Lo Zingarelli, and Polish Slownik jezyka polskiego.
Best,

Danko Sipka
sipkadan at main.amu.edu.pl or Danko.Sipka at asu.edu
http://main.amu.edu.pl/~sipkadan or http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka

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> Many folk dancers in the U.S. know the terms Lesnoto and Tes^koto
> ('the easy dance' and 'the difficult dance'), and the more general
> term oro (in this form it is definitely Macedonian, since a Bulgarian
> dance is called horo [XOPO]).
> Historians may know komitadji.
> People all over ex-Yugoslavia knew tavc^e-gravc^e (a baked bean dish).
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