Re: ...Crãciun...

From: g
Message: 28835
Date: 2003-12-28

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003, at 06:06 PM, m_iacomi wrote:

> Lat. "titionem" > DR "tãciune", AR "tic^uni"
> Lat. "fetiolus" > DR "fecior", AR "fic^or"
> Lat. "petiolus" > DR "picior", AR "pic^or"

BTW, why the different spelling in DR and AR for
[tS]? The pronunciation is the same in both major
dialects of Romanian. (And we shouldn't be mislead
by the "ci" spelling into thinking there were an
[i] after [tS]: it's only an [j], *if any*; this is
why -ciune, -cior make a single syllable in the
afore mentioned examples.)

> Lat. "intellectio:nem" > DR "înTelepciune"
> Lat. "*matteuca" > DR "mãciucã"

Yeah!

> Lat. "-tio:sus" > DR "-cios" (in suffixes)

e.g. <legea contenciosului administrativ>.

(BTW, <urît> "ugly; hated; despicable" generates
both [tz] and [tS] forms: <urîtzenie> (-énie of
Slavic origin, I suppose), <urîcios>, <urîciune>.)

George

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