>Hungarian "ghond".
gond! (no "h)
>I have a problem with Hungarian "gond" not because /o/
>before /nC/ should have become /u/ in DacoRom.
Look at this Magyarism: <bolond> "crazy, lunatic, mad"
['bolond]. The Romanianized wide-spread variant is
<bolând> [bo-'lInd]. The second variant (perhaps the
older one), in use esp. in western areas of Transylvania,
is <bolund> [bo-'lund]. ([o] and [u] are much closer.)
>Beside of this I am not sure the semantic aspect will
>matches.
It matches big time. "gondolom = gândesc" (with all
main connotations: "I think, methinks, I believe that,
I mean...").
Have a look at the basic word and its derivations:
Hung-Engl; "thought"
http://tinyurl.com/bq6n
http://tinyurl.com/bq73
Germ-Hung ("denken", "Gedanke")
http://tinyurl.com/bq6z
http://tinyurl.com/bq72
>alex
George