Romanian Swadesh list

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 28123
Date: 2003-12-08

I was looking at the 100 Swadesh list for Romanian.

As far as I can see, there are 2 definitely non-Romance words:

sand nisip < Slavic
road drum < Greek


I'm not sure about:

neck gât/gît origin?
foot picior
bite mu$ca (like Spa. mascar < masticare?)
kill omorî
cloud nor
ash(es) frasin (< fraxinu the tree?)

What are the etymologies (say, according to DEX)?


For comparison, the English Swadesh list contains 3 words of Romance origin
(person, mountain, round), 5 of Scandinavian origin (skin, egg, big(?),
die, root), and 1 of unknown etymology (dog).

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