-eşti (placename element)

The suffix -eşti (pronounced [eʃtʲ], sometimes changed to -ăști [əʃtʲ]) is widespread in Romanian placenames. It is the plural of the possessive suffix -escu, formerly used for patronyms and currently widespread in family names. Obsolete spellings are -esci and -eşci, used for a few decades until the beginning of the 20th century.

Overall, this ending is part of the names of 14.8% of the Romanian towns and villages (2,038 out of 13,724) and 11.4% of the Moldovan towns and villages (144 out of 1,254).^{[citation needed]} In some areas in Romania, more than half of the placenames have this suffix.^{[citation needed]}

Placenames

Romania

• Bucureşci, Hunedoara County
• Bucureşti (Bucharest)
• Comăneşti
• Dărăşti-Ilfov, Ilfov County
• Feteşti
• Mărăşeşti
• Moineşti
• Negreşti-Oaş
• Oneşti
• Piteşti
• Ploieşti
• Scorniceşti
• Zărneşti

Moldova

• Făleşti
• Floreşti
• Hânceşti
• Mălăieşti, Transnistria
• Şoldăneşti
• Teleneşti
• Vulcăneşti

See also

• -ovo/-evo, a Slavic suffix