to above. |- | custură || blade, knife edge, knife || Russu || variants custure, cusutură, cuțitură, from cuțit "knife' + suffix -tură|- | daș || ram (male sheep) || Russu (Alb.) || from Albanian dash|- | doină || lamenting folksong || Hasdeu, Vraciu || Transylvanian daină; from Lithuanian dainà 'folksong' (cf. Latvian daĩn̨a), derivative of Proto-Baltic *deî- (cf. Latvian diêt, dìet 'to dance, hop; sing') |- | droaie || crowd, multitude; a lot || Russu || back-formation from the plural droi, from Albanian droe, droje 'fear'; same sense development in Rom. groază 'horror' > o groază de 'a lot of'. |- |Dunăre|The Danube river |Paliga |Dac. *Dan-ar- cf. NFl Aar, Aare, NL Aarhus, O. Dan. aar 'a river' |- | fărâmă || crumb, morsel, bit || Russu (Alb.) || variant sfărâmă, Aromanian sãrmã; from Albanian thërrime, from ther 'to stab, slaughter, snip' |- | gard || fence || Russu (Alb.) || Istro-Romanian gård "wattle gate to a pen"; from Albanian gardh; unrelated to Slavic gradŭ > Alb gradë|- | gata || ready, done || Russu (Alb.) || from Albanian gat(i) "ready", from gatuaj 'to ready, prepare; cook', from Slavic *gotovati; cf. Serbo-Croatian gotov "ready", Polish gotowy. |- | gălbează || liver rot (fasciolosis), sheep pox || Russu (Alb.) || variant călbează; from Albanian gëlbazë, këlbazë, klëbacë 'sheep pox', itself from the Albanian word "kalb" (to rot, to go bad) with a diminutive suffixe -zë, commonly seen in disease names. |- | ghimpe || thorn || Russu (Alb.) || from Albanian gjemb (dialectal Tosk gjëmp, Arvanite gljimp, Gheg glëmp) |- | ghionoaie || woodpecker || Sala, Russu (Alb.) || dialectal ghionoi, ghin, Aromanian ǵionu 'tawny owl'; from Albanian gjon 'scops owl', from Gjon 'John'; Albanian also has qukapik 'woodpecker' (< qukë 'owl' + pik 'woodpecker') |- | ghiuj || gaffer, old fogey || Hasdeu, Vraciu || Aromanian ghiush; from Albanian gjysh "grandfather" |- | gordin || kind of grapes used in winemaking || Hasdeu || variants gordean, g(o)ardină, gorgan, gordan; from Russian gordina "currant" |- | grapă || harrow || Russu (Alb.) || from Albanian grep (var. grap) 'hook'. |- | gresie || sandstone, whetstone || Russu (Alb.) || Aromanian greasã; from Albanian gërresë (var. grresë) 'rasp, scraper; drawing knife', from gërryej 'to scrape, scour' |- | grumaz || neck || Russu (Alb.), NODEX || Aromanian grumadz, gurmadz; from Albanian gurmaz 'gaping maw, wide-open jaws; esophagus' (variants gurmac, grumas, gërmaz),