On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, at 12:31 PM, Piotr wrote:
> (note that Banat Rusyn _kárac^on_ 'tree carried
> by Xmas carol performers' (quoyed by Sergei) can
> hardly be anything else but a loan from Hungarian)
That's what I'd say myself. (BTW, I wasn't aware
of Rusyns living in Banat; I was aware of Czechs,
Slovaks and of course of Serbs and Croats there.)
In (older) Hung., such initial clusters as [kr-]
had to be adapted by introducing auxiliary vowels.
The other way around, i.e. it wasn't and isn't a
necessity for cohabitants such as Germans, Slavs,
Romanians to avoid such clusters, that are typical
of their own idioms.
As for East Slavs, esp. Russians, can't koroc^un
be seen as a parallel occurrence to grad vs gorod,
vlad vs volod(imir/ymyr)?
> Piotr
George