From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19424
Date: 2003-02-28
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] fresh
> Piotr, do you see the Romanian word for 'fresh'= proaspãt being a Greek loan? If yes, how is to explain the "sf"= "sp" in romanian?
What else could it be? Thracian? :-))
I don't think at the time it was borrowed Romanian allowed /sf/ in the middle of morphologically unanalysable words (and it _was_ as unanalysable to early Romanian-speakers as it was to you until yesterday). /sf/ --> /sp/ is a natural substitution in such cases.
Piotr