Re: latin viridis

> >/vaerde/ and "verme" /vaerme/ (i.e., without any diphtongation, i.e.
>
>Strange. Last Year I was 2 weeks in the county of Hatseg and we have had
>the village CosteSti as place where we overnighted when not remaining
>between ruins of Sarmizegetusa Regia. In the evenings we have eaten with
>the peasants of CosteSti and discussed together. I can not remember they
>used "vearde" or such stuff.

I wrote /ae/, and not "ea"! Okay, then read it in German: "wärde".

>On the contrary, their speech was -for my
>ears- a clear "muntenian" way to speak, but with some regionalisms which
>are not to find in Muntenia.

Either they adapted their speech for your... gringo ears,
or they themselves were not local, but immigrant people.

>It can be I was not interested too much,

(Da kannste aber Gift druffnehmen. ;-)

>Alex

George