cimpoi

• cimpoaie
• ciumpoi

Probably from a Vulgar Latin root *centipollium, from Latin centipellium, centipellio (“third stomach of a ruminant”) < centum + pellium, as bagpipes were made from animal stomachs. Compare also Italian centopelle (“tripe”). Alternatively but less likely from the variant form cimpoaie, perhaps from an earlier *șimpoaie and this from Latin symphonia (compare Italian zampogna, Piedmontese čamporña) or Hungarian csimpolya, which seems more likely to have come from the Romanian word instead.

cimpoi n (plural cimpoaie)

1. bagpipe
2. stomach of a ruminant
3. bellows

• (bagpipe): gaidă
• (bellows): foale, burduf

• cimpoiaș
• cimpoier