>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.
In Romanian there's buhã indeed, but its synonym,
that's used far more frequently, is bufnitã ['bufnitz&].
*buhnitã doesn't exist. (For various kinds of little
owls, there are the Romanian terms "cucuvea" or
"cucuvaie" as well as "ciuf" and "huhurez"; this one
seems to be as onomatopoeic as Uhu in German.
I don't know but my guesstimation is that cucuvea
and ciuf are related to the Italian civetta.)
>New Testament Greek, where Gothic, Romanian, Spanish
>("pan ázimo") and the rest of the world got azymos from.
BTW: in an abridged, paperback "atlas der deutschen
Sprache" I once read that Goths seem to have left
some religious vocabulary in South German dialects.
OTOH, I suppose a major role as far as... oblivion is
concerned was played by the circumstance that Goths
sticked to a Christian current, Arianism. And this
was seen as a dangerous heresy by the mainstream,
and hence persecuted as such, both by the followers
of the Pope and of the Patriarch in Constantinople.
>mcv@...
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