Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
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>> The Rom cluster "ân" seems more probabl from an "an" as from slavic
>> "o~", don't you find?
>
> Jeeeez, Alex, we've been through this many times, and you don't seem
> to remember anything. Slavic *o~ is NORMALLY reflected as Rom. <âN>
> (<îN>) in laonwords!
I did not forgot it. I just see there is as follow:
Latin /an/, /un/ > /ân/
Slavic /o~/ > /ân/
PIE /en/ > /ân/
It seems almost every wovel before /n/ became an /â/. In this case there
is not a very strong point to belive the Rom. word should be a loan from
Slavic.
In fact if we think about, that would mean (regarding the bee farming)
that as the proto-romanians came from somewhere they found a Slavic
population which has been sedentar, made bee framing and so the ROm.
could take all these words from *Slavic.
That should be the logical explanation. After a time, they assimilated
the slavs and we don't need any explanation more.
Or, to quote Rosetti, " the slavs learned Romanian because it was a
prestige to know the language of the Imperium."
Why they re-slavised in South of Donau it remains however, a mistery:-))