The lexical Slavicisation of Old Romanian
was very heavy indeed. I have the following numbers for a *Romanian*
etymological dictionary of Romanian (so if there's any bias, it isn't foreign).
The dictionary is rather old, but I think the proportions are generally
valid:
Origin Number
of items
Slavic
2350
Latin
1150
Turkish 950
Mod. Greek 650
Hungarian 600
There have been some symbolic attempts to
"purify" Romanian by making it more Latin-like; e.g. the artificial term limba
româna has replaced older limba rumîneasca with the Slavic suffix *-Isk- and the
historically regular raising o > u in pretonic syllables.
Piotr
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Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001
12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Romanian and
Slavic
Agree..but I sometimes have disputed the degree or level.
What per centage
would you put on the degree of Slavicization? (below you
mentioned "twice as great" re
Romance lexical
components?)