Re: Protobulgarian inscriptions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...> wrote:

> >> The reduced variant <(j)e> of *(j)estI is very widespread in
> > >Slavic. You
> >> can find it e.g. in Slovene, Sorbian, Czech and Slovak,

Kashubian,

> > >and in Polish dialects.
> >
> > And on protobulgarian inscriptions.
> >
> > Eva
>
> And in French "il est plus facile" (where "est" [e]);
> and in Italian "La poesia non è morta". (In Spanish,
> they ad an s: "es".)
>
> George

Parallel developments in other languages are never excluded. A
borrowing from French is hard to defend historically. A borrowing
from Slavic will need some early enough evidence.

Eva