Re[2]: tsarca - Lit. s^árka

> 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

szarka ['sOrkO] with [O] as in BE <lot, not, hot>.

(<tzarcã> in Romanian is not as frequent and pan-
Romanian as its synonym <cotzofanã>; rather limited
to some regions)

George