Re: [tied] Dacian - /H/ -> seems not possible

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 28064
Date: 2003-12-07

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:51:48 +0000, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> b) Could we imagine that the Dacian had /H/ ?...I don't think so.
> Despite some plant names at Dioskurides (in fact I found only
>one : Hormia ) there is no other dacian toponym that contains /H/.
> Also romanian loans [sic] from latin don't have /H/ either

Latin had no /h/ (it lost it very early on). Therefore, no native Romanian
words have /h/, and no substrate /h/'s would have survived among a
Romanized population.


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