Re: About the origin of a few romanian words....

From: Rau Eugen
Message: 63908
Date: 2009-05-17

        Hello,
 I don`t ask myself if daco/moesian or not.I propose you another word maybe related
- Momitze, that`s animal testicles wich in some Balkanic cultures are used as say an exotic dish.
The common element of both words is
- both are related to something wraped in a bag like scrotum for testicles and old mumies wraping or  dried skin.
You know both are related to old,fixed in the past,not necessary active, but representing the past and ancestors..That is common for momaie,momitze.
What`s your opinion about this ?
                                        Your,  Eugen Rau

 
On 5/9/09, Berzovan Alexandru <prince_of_sarmizegetusa@...> wrote:


Hy to everybody,
I would like to ask you about the origin of a few rare Romanian words, and if they might came from Daco-Moesian language. In the Romanian etimological dictionaries I consulted so far, they have "unknown origin", that is an etiquette often aplied to possible Daco-Moesic substratum words...

"Momaie" with alternative forms: , with the following meaning : scarecrow, mound made of stons as marking sign, boogeyman, ghost.
"Muiama", with the meaning of ghost, or evil spirit, etc, that form i found it highly used in SW Romania only and does not appear in dictionaries.
"Momarlan", that is the name of Romanian pastoral population from Jiu Valley.

These have a large variety of derivate words also, I hope can be found some possible etimologies

with respect,
Alexandru