Re: Enclosed Places

From: g
Message: 24480
Date: 2003-07-13

> The Romanian does not allow "sg" but "zg" ( as I ponted in another
> message)

This is not as dead-sure as you might think. Remember that
up to April 1st, 1954, the Romanian official spelling was
always with "s-" (and "des-") - even for the cases where
the pronunciation was "z-" (and "dez-"). Cf. the latest
"Indreptarul ortografic si ortoepic" by Sextil PuScariu and
Teodor Naum, 1932ff. (And we should cf. older orthogr. habits,
19th c. and previous centuries.)

(So, prior to April 1954, the official Romanian spelling was
e.g. "sburãtorul, sgardã, sgârieturã, smeul smeilor, svârlugã".)

> The Schönheitsfehler would be the Alb. "k".

Why? [g] is only a "stimmhaftes k," [k] is a mere "stimmloses g."
So, it was possible that "once upon a time" the initial Romanian
<zgarda> was <skarda>.

> Alex

George