-ka (Re: Slavic *go~sI)

> Just look for "ploscã", "balercã", "zacuscã", "zamcã",
>"lotcã", "matcã", "japcã", "votcã", "butelcã",
>"rusalcã", "mahorcã", etc..

... cea$ca, $apca, calea$ca, ... Nemtzoaica, Rusoaica,
Grecoaica, Frantzuzoaica, Cehoaica... etc. (There's by
far no need for all kind of nouns + (usu. fem.) suffix
-ca to be diminutival.) (But OTOH some can be misleading:
brânca "(1) hand," (2) a skin disease; musca "fly" are
almost as how they are in classic Latin, <branca>,
<musca>: "Aquila non captat muscam.") (As for BrâncuSi,
his name must be some kind of reflex of... Slav.
<Branko>, and not of Lat. <branca>.)

>There are a lot of Slavic loanwords in Romanian having
>the structure -Ccã < -Cka (mostly following stress);
>since they form a clear majority in the category of
>nouns ending in -Ccã, this is a strong indication for
>a Slavic origin. [...]
>In Romanian, "gâscã" is just a simple noun, and "-cã"
>is not a suffix but a simple ending.

Yep.

> And of course, if you want to infer a Dacian (North
>Thracian) origin for "gâscã", then you'll have to cope
>with the same problem since Dacian was Satem as well,
>and one should have had an initial *z...

Yeah, but, in Dacia, for a time period, lived the...
Germanic Gepidic Gans...er... I mean goose, ya know. :-))

>Marius

George