From: altamix
Message: 12670
Date: 2002-03-14
> *****GK: My dear fellow I wonder if you realize whati dont have a statistic too. And i did not analised by myself if they are or
> you are admitting here. I don't have statistics at
> hand. Piotr was talking about toponyms and hydronyms.
> If your claim is that most such in Rumania are Slavic
> (and I'm not sure this is correct), then the
> conclusion is that Slavs arrived into an ethnic
> vacuum. Slavs normally took over and "Slavicized"
> existing place etc. names. New ones were created where
> no surviving "local" was available to tell them that
> "this is river X" or "place Y". And these new Slavic
> place etc names were inherited by newly incoming
> Rumanian-speakers because THEY had someone to tell
> them "this is river X", "this is place Y". Think about
> it. Perhaps you'll want to change your mind about the
> nature of Rumanian hydro- and toponyms (:=)), if the
> evidence is there.******
>