I cannot help you with the etymology of Romanian "varsã" ("liquid flow, spill") indicated as from lat. versare. I can tell you that Latin versare is not from...
... You forgot about (1) *k^w- > *c'W > *c^- > s- (and *g^(H)w- > *3^ > z-); (2) labiovelars before front vowels (the same development as above) When <sorrë>...
... Cancel this *k^w- solution. Jens's suggestion that the BSl. 'magpie' word is a loan, and the reconstruction *kWersnah2, are infinitely better and amount to...
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... Thank you for the flattering attention. I would suppose that the shared surprises go back to a time preceding the separation of Baltic and Slavic. It is my...
... When <sorrë> was discussed here, the dicussion converged on the optimal solution: PIE *kWersnah2 (literally 'black (bird)') > *c'We:rna: > *c'Wa:rra: (-->...
... The reconstruction "*k^orHkeh2" has the following weaknesses: 1. It does not account for the Sl. forms with sv- which match Alb. sorrë in a most...
... Dear Marius, I wanted to make a few comments to a previous post of yours, but seem to have mislaid it... I just want to say that Ptolemy may not be all...
Hello George, I will argue below based only on Thermidava toponim: When Thermidava could appears near Skodra ? ... a) Ptolemaios lived between approx. 87-150...
... Why wrongly? ... Hung. szarka is rather obviously a loan from Slavic. ... What a pity ;-) ... It fits *sorka because it's the same word, borrowed from...
... is ... Counterexample: Juli-acum > Jülich from Julius and the Celtic toponymic suffix -acum. So in this case the Romans followed local custom in naming....
... the ... as; ... as ... Leafing through a French Etymological Dictionary in the library I came across a 'baie': from OFr. 'baer' "be open". If that is so,...
... *****GK: Why? Could it not perhaps have been a late foundation by immigrants (or expellees)after the Dacian wars?.***** ... *****GK: But let's assume that...
At 8:54:19 AM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, tgpedersen ... I'd say rather that they borrowed a Gaulish suffix signifying 'belonging to' or the like, Latinized...
... The original post implied, but did not state, that Romanian had "preserved" an original meaning, also found in Sanskrit. By saying "there is no need", I...
... But the Roman use of <-dava> was exactly the question, which is why one can't use it as a premise as if the question had already been answered. Torsten...
... Mind you, I don't see why Alexandru finds Roman use of <-dava> so improbable, ... Because the Probability is defined as: 'Number of expected cases / Number...
Hello Piotr, ... It fits *sorka because it's the same word, borrowed from Slavic via Hungarian [...and next to Romanian] ... This is only an affirmation :...
... this is what I understood too and I wanted to be sure this is what you mean. There is the very clear idea that Romanian is Latin thus everything what ...
At 12:22:52 PM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, tgpedersen ... I'm not. I'm agreeing with you that Alexandru's assertion is problematic but pointing out that...
Summarizing. What I gather is that the developments that led to Slavic accentuation are chronologically the following: 1) Reshuffling of PIE accentual...
... So the big migration of Dacians/Carpians which yelded the actualy Albanians are all the inhabitants of only one "-dava" and late in all their history they...
... because of the meaning. A crow is not a magpie. If one want's to link them via "black" that is something else. ... with "a" from "o"? ... any idea about...
... it is feelt as "autochtoneus" but, regardless its origin, this does not say anything since everyone feels such words as "autochtoneus" if the words are ...
... As I understand it, the PSl vowel was a low, back vowel, variously described as weakly rounded and as without *distinctive* rounding; this would make it...
