Odp: [tied] Re: Romanian and Slavic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6015
Date: 2001-02-10

Dalta < *dolbto and balta < *bolto are 100% Slavic. "Baltic Illyrian" is a myth (Baltic Venetic might just be real, but we know next to nothing about the Venetic vocabulary), while *bolto- has a good deal of inner-Slavic support (e.g. bIltati 'stir violently'). Gard could be ultimately Germanic (though Germanic loanwords are not conspicuously present in Romanian); after all, Slavic gordU is itself a very probable Germanic borrowing (no satemisation).
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen@...
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:13 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Romanian and Slavic

Da. gård 'farm, yard', gærde 'fence'. (Danish farms are typically
four houses arranged in a square, leaving an open space between them).
Considering my other mail (about "Illyrian" *balta-), were these
words all Slavic?

Torsten