Re: [tied] Miguel & dentis

From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 15134
Date: 2002-09-05

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Miguel & dentis


On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:47:33 +0200, alexmoeller@...
wrote:

>The DEX means, romanian "a zâmbi=to smile" and the
substantive
>"zâmbet=smile" come from bg. "zAbja se" or from slavic
>"zOnbu=teeth"
>Such a good lock that in slavic was an "n" there for
>explaining the "m" there.. hehe.

Slavic o~ in zo~bU is a nasalized vowel, from *om or *on.

[moeller] and the slavic lost them all but the olah as a good
guy kept them all. That`s nice, isnt it?