it from the Thracian language spoken further south, across the Haemus range. According to Romanian historian , there are supposedly over 160 Romanian words of Dacian origin, representing, together with derivates, 10% of the basic Romanian vocabulary. Below is a list of Romanian words believed by early scholars to be of Dacian origin, which have also been attributed to other origins. The list does not include the Dacian plant names collected by Dioscorides and Pseudo-Apuleius, since these words were not retained in Romanian. {| class="wikitable" ! Word / Name !! English !! Sources !! Notes – Alternative etymologies |- | abeș || really, for sure! || Hasdeu, Vraciu, Paliga || dialectal Banat; a+beș < IE *bhend(s)- 'to bind', cf. Albanian besë 'word of honor; faith', besabesë 'on my honor!' |- |Abud |Abud, village in Mureș County |Paliga |related to Thracian Aba, Abantes, Abro-lebas. Cf. Romanian Abrud, abur, Pre-Indo-European ultimately from *AB- 'elevated, prominent' |- | abur(e) || steam, vapour || Hasdeu, Russu (Alb.), Vraciu, Paliga | Aromanian abur(ã); cf. Albanian avull Proto-Albanian *abulā 'steam, vapour'; cf. Romanian boare. Ultimately from Pre-Indo-European *AB- 'prominence, elevation' |- |aburca |'to climb up' |Paliga |Prefix ab (see above) + urca: ultimately from Pre-Indo-European *OR- / *UR- 'big, huge, giant' related with Greek ouranizo 'to go up, to climb' derived from Ouranos 'sky'. |- |ad-, at- | |Paliga |Pre-Indo-European, spread across whole Europe. Inherited via Thracian. |- |adaru |I make; I set up, I set an ornament |Paliga |Aromanian; from Indo-European *der-, dra- 'to work'; cf. Greek δράω, Lithuanian daraù, Latvian darît 'to make' |- |adulmeca |'to sniff, to smell' |Paliga |probably *ad-ul-m-ec-a. Substatum root -ulm- related to olm '''smell'; derivative suffix -ec also indigenous. Similar construction to adămană, ademeni. The Thracian root must be *olm-, *ulm- 'smell, to smell; to sniff; to track an animal for hunt' or dul-, dol- 'dog', see dulău, dolcă. |- |ag-|archaic 'to get to a thorn' |Paliga |Cf. agănău, agăța. Related to Thracian names Aga-thyr-soi, Aeg-issus (Tulcea). agăța is seemingly derived from the same root. |- |Agaua|Agaua village, Brăila county |Paliga |related to Agnita, Agăș, Agriș/agriș, cf. Agay, Provence, and Aigai, Greece. See ag-.|- |agănău|a kind of folk dance |Paliga |related to root ag-. |- |Agăș|Agăș, Bacău county, Bihor county |Paliga |Today extinct. The village in Bihor is near a hill called Acățel which can be used to reject an etymology from agas 'crossroad, branched out'. Cf. Thracian Aegissus;