--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> 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). ...
In a language X, the proportion of words taken from language Y in a
dictionary is not necessarily the same as the proportion in a random
sample of text. Some classes of words are much more common that other
classes, and in Rumanian going by proportion of usage in text may well
bias towards words of Latin origin. Same as: in English the proportion
of Greek words is much more common in a big dictionary that lists
every rarely-used scientific term, than in day-to-day speech or in
newspapers.