vorbă

Etymology
Maybe from through *vărbu, subsequently *vărbă by singularization of the supplanted neuter plural up to  in analogy to the change from [ə] to [o] in the imperative  from. The intermediate form *vărbu is strengthened by related Aromanian, having turned [b] into [g] which is a common trait. For instance, in the singular and in the plural.

Conversely, it might have come from, from , as sustained by the presupposed variant. In the 17th century it still had the meaning of "gathering", attested by Dosoftei, but already by 1744, as attested by Ion Neculce, it seems to have shifted to "word" in case this meaning was not already encompassed previously. Moreover, in old texts, a word, presumably of this etymology, meant "service to the court", and was never confused with.

Noun

 * 1) talk, talking, speaking
 * 2)  word
 * 3) conversation, discussion
 * 4)  a gathering
 * 1)  a gathering