Re: Re[2]: [tied] Rom. tsarca - Lit. s^árka

Brian M. Scott wrote:

> At 1:54:24 PM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, alex wrote:
>
>> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
>>> Hung. szarka is rather obviously a loan from Slavic.
>
>> with "a" from "o"?
>
> As I understand it, the PSl vowel was a low, back vowel,
> variously described as weakly rounded and as without
> *distinctive* rounding; this would make it very similar to
> Hungarian <a>, which I have usually seen transcribed as [A.]
> (IPA turned-script-a).
>
> Brian

so far so right. The problem is the time here. Hungarians arrived at the end
of X century, almost XI century. The PSl seems to be in a another period of
time, right?

Alex