stăpân

Etymology

 * only found in some Balkan languages. Possibly from a, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬 and the 🇨🇬 verb . Compare also 🇨🇬. The Romanian word may actually more likely be derived from an early version of this Albanian word (a form *stëpi, from  or ); for the ending, cf. the locative suffix used in Albanian, e.g. . The relationship between the word for "house" and the one for "master" is common in Indo-European languages (cf. 🇨🇬 < ).

Noun

 * 1) master, owner, possessor