Re: [tied] Re: cardinal points

On Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:24 +0200, alex_lycos <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>>> the germanic word for "owl"
>>> which is "uhu" ( se room. "buhã")
>
>
>> From Latin bufo, bubo
>
>intervocalic "b" mentained , more /b/ > /h/ ?

In Spanish buho, the /h/ comes from /f/, as is regular in Spanish. In
Romanian, we're probably dealing with onomatopoeia, based on the Latin
word.

>>> see Gothic "azyma" ( unsalated bread)
>>> and Rom. "azima",
>>
>> From Greek a-zymos
>
>Greek "y" is reprezented as "u" in Ro. Or wich period of Greek you mean
>now?

New Testament Greek, where Gothic, Romanian, Spanish ("pan ázimo") and
the rest of the world got azymos from.


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