Romanian român (+ românesc, românca) is a
late, artificially Latinised form, emphasising the Latin etymology of the word.
The regular phonological development of <ro:má:n-> in Romanian was
<rumîn> with the historically normal change of pretonic o > u and
of stressed pre-nasal a > î (the original form of the adjective was
actually <rumînesc> with the borrowed suffix <-esc>, cf. Rus.
rumynskij).
Piotr
[Moeller] this is what I suspected to be too. But
I needed to know the opinion of you ,lingvists, and you confirmed it must be
"rum". In fact everyone tell to this "rum" but not romanians thierself and this
is just of recent times ( I guess even in Ceaucescu time was made this "
transformation". )
many thanks for your
help