>>11206055It comes from Latin “solidus”, a gold coin that was used to pay soldiers. Russian isn’t a Romance language but it does have a lot of loan words from French, because for a very long time the upper class of Russia refused to speak Russian among themselves, considering it a peasant language.
Fun fact, the unplaceable accent of Londo Mollari fromBabylon 5? Peter Jurasik based it off of an old neighbor he’d had as a kid, who’d been a member of the Tsarist court before the revolution and who’s native language was a heavily Russian-accented French.
