Re: [tied] cuman , slavic or balcanic?

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:08:14 +0200, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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).

Just to point out that while the suffix -esc has indeed been borrowed,
and in this particular case, borrowed from Slavic, this is not true in
general.

The IE suffix *-isko- had become unproductive in Latin (the only
native word I can think of that has it is Faliscus "Faliscan"), but a
borrowed suffix -esc(o) is fairly common in all Romance languages. It
was initially borrowed from Greek -iskos, and its use was later
reinforced in the West by the influence of Germanic *-iskaz, in the
East by Slavic *-IskU.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...