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Codru (plural form: codri; English: forests or woods) is the name of the forests that grow in the hilly part of central Moldova. While the Moldovans today speak a Romance language, the name "codru" is likely of pre-Roman origin, and possibly derived from the indigenous Paleo-Balkan languages such as Thraco-Illyrian (which includes Daco-Thracian), spoken by the pre-Roman and pre-Hellenic people of the region. The word for hill is "kodra" (the plural rolling hills or small hills are "kodrina") in Albanian, which is the sole survivor of Thraco-Illyrian.