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Re: about selariu...
Apparently this surname is very local in Romania: only two persons in Bucarest Directory. A gypsy surname?
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I could be way off base here, but since Romanian is descended from Latin, there is a Latin base "sel-" that means to select, to choose ...and an Indo-European root that mean to take or grasp ..
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