Re: [tied] Re: Walachians are placed far North the Danube in Nestor

From: alex
Message: 35660
Date: 2004-12-25

g wrote:
>
> PS: Inter alia, North Romania has lost the Romance word for "plough"
> <aratru>; this has been preserved by Aromanians living in Greece,
> FYROM and S-Albania. These also preserved <c�mp�nile> for "bells",
> which is also lost to N-R. The N-R also lost <ma> (cf. with Italian
> <ma>), ie, this has been preserved only in (approx.) Oltenia in the
> interogatory locution "Machea?" which is dwindling and unknown to an
> overwhelming majority of Romanians (native-speakers of the
> "Dacoromanian" dialect). So, these and myriads of other cases
> illustrate that the carriers of the DR were once thoroughly exposed
> to a coexistence with both south-Slavic branches: the Serbo-Croatian
> and the Bulgarian. And where could that have happened? Of course to a
> far less extent in those "Walachias" mentioned by Greek chroniclers
> in Greek regions for the 9th c. (those must've been only the outer
> waves after the Slavic impact).


There are Serbs & Bulgarians which refugeed North to Danube as the Ottoman
Turks conquered these countries. These expresions could be loans from the
XIV century on if their phonetical aspect do not speak for an early
historical time. I remind this, just for having all the probabilities under
the eyes.


Alex





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