Re: Dacian Dielina

--- In cybalist@..., George <gs001ns@...> wrote:

> Is this parallel of any help? Rum. "tzarc" (a place

surrounded/closed

> by a fence) -- Albanian "thark". (I mean for the assumed *ð > tz.)

It does raise interesting issues - e.g.:

1. Date of Albanian tz > th (assuming a parallel with Castilian
Spanish)

2. PIE k^ > Dacian X and how did the Greeks write X?.

3. How would early Proto-Romanian have handles Dacian X and Albanian
tz before Romanian te > tze?

And ditto with other sibilants.

> >It would be better if I had access to a list of Dacian loans into
> >Romanian for comparison. I've read a quote of 230 loans from a

sober-

> >seeming source.
>
> These are assumed to be pre-Latin words:
>
> a acãtza, a adia, a ametzi, amurg, a anina, aprig, a arunca, baci

(u) (?),
<snip>
and the Dacian was? :)

More seriously, I need to get hold of the glosses.

> and with Albanian correspondents:
>
> abur(e), argea, baciu (?), balaur (balã), baligã/balegã, baltã,

barzã, bascã,
<Snip>

Again, I need to get the glosses and the cognates. Almost my only
resources for Albanian and Romanian are the internet and some notes I
jotted down from a thesis whose author seemed unable to solve PIE *s

> Albanian X.

Richard.