Glossary of Rare Dialectal Forms and Regional Ethnographic Words

• Amandilea — An archaic, regional, or popular name used in certain rural communities to denote a local variety of homemade pastry, gingerbread sweetened with must or honey, or a wild plant traditionally used in the household. The term is a rare element of folkloric lexicon, preserved mainly in old dialectal layers of the Romanian language.
• Amarus — A rare regional or archaic popular name used in certain Romanian rural areas to denote a wild herbaceous plant or mushroom characterized by a distinctly bitter taste. In empirical ethnobotany, it represents a descriptive identification marker.