Re: [tied] Re: Moment

From: alex
Message: 23145
Date: 2003-06-12

m_iacomi wrote:
>
>> or this is a recently term like "aromanians"?
>
> The _scientific_ name "Aromanians" is recent (G. Weigand), as well
> as the other (slightly older, though) "Macedo-Romanians". In their
> dialect, the ethnic name is inherited, be it "armân(u)" or other
> equivalent form. The scientific term is nothing else but educated
> adaptated form of their own ethnical name.
>
> Marius Iacomi


I guess I wrote "aromanians" when I said "recent" and not "armân". BTW
*romana is given in my dictionary with an "*" and the expresion "lingua
romana" is not at all given.

Alex