george knysh wrote:
>
> *****GK: Judging by the number of Slavic origin words
> in Romanian there was a good deal of linguistic
> interplay between the various communities,
> irrespectively of "family" intermingling. So the point
> about possible Germanic borrowings into (Early)
> Romanian remains. Absence thereof would be significant
> it seems to me.******
The slavic loans are after VIII century. After the methathesis after
all. The so called " Old Slavic" which exist just in Romanian partly in
Albanian and in no Slavic language are not to be seen seriously as
"slavic".Even Micklosicz have let an open way here for future research.
It seems that the way opened by Asanenian with the bulgaro-valahian
Empire was the one who put together the south Slavs and the Valahs. The
germanic loans are for sure, and for sure there are latin(?) words which
entered gothic in North of Danube.If we count the fact the Goths settled
for a while South of Danube too, this is not a very solide argumentum.
If indeed there shouldn't be no germanic loans then the Romanians have
been either North, nor South of Danube onto this criterium. The separate
living in this case should be the only reliable answer if one don't
intend to move the proto-romanians somewhere outside of Balcans.
There are some works around this topic (Latin loans into the Gothic
prior 4 century).