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

> 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.

If Latin did lose the /h/, it restored it by the Classical period, although
there was confusion over it. We have a poem by Catullus mocking someone for
saying things like "Hionian Sea" instead of "Ionian." Mostly, <h> in
Latin words has an etymological justification. It was the much later loss
in the later Empire which would cause its absence in Romance languages.

Peter