Re: Burzenland ( it was : [tied] V-, B-)

At 6:33:45 AM on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, altamix wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>>> Wurcza terra,
>>> Burzenland, Lschf., Siebenbürgen

>> The German colonists from this region are attested in
>> documents as early as 1192 when <terra Bozza> is mentioned
>> as being settled by Germans (<Theutonici>).

>> (For what it's worth, it says that 'Romanian word <bârsä>
>> is supposedly of Dacian origin'.)

> The Romanian word is usually seen as being the counterpart
> of the Albanian "vërz" but to me , neither the
> phonological aspect neither the semantic aspect of the
> word "bârsã" cannot be related to Alb. "vërz".

> Due the meaning of the word as "heel, sole"

I had the impression that it referred primarily to some part
of a plough. <http://dexonline.ro/search.php?lexemId=5248>

> and its phonological aspect, I think the word could be
> related with the Germanic family of "ferse", [ MHG mhd.
> versen(e) OHG. fers(a)na supposed to derive from an PreGmc
> *fersno: ( Gothic "fairzna")]

Two forms, Verner's Law alternants: *fersno:- ~ *ferzno:-,
the latter giving Goth. <faírzna>, the former, OHG
<fersana> and OSax. <fersna>. External cognates include
Homeric Gk. <ptérne:> 'heel', Lat. <perna> 'haunch', Skt.
<pá:rs.n.is> 'heel', Hitt. <parsna-> 'upper thigh', and
Toch. B <porsnai-> 'heel, ankle'. From PIE *persnah2.

Brian