From: tgpedersen
Message: 22404
Date: 2003-05-30
>One characteristic of Schrijver's postulated substrate 'language of
> Confirmed: the spelling "cionco." Perhaps it's not an
> everyday's word, and hence not to be found in any
> dictionary.
>
> By the way: in Hungarian it's called "csonka" [tSon-kO];
> and in some contexts a further Hung. one, "tompa,"
> [tompO] also fits.
>
> Then there is the Romanian word "ciump" that fonetically
> and semantically looks like being akin to "ciung", and
> has the derivations adj. "ciumpav" and verb "a ciump&vi".
> But "ciump" looks strangely similar to German "Stumpf"
> and "Stummel", Old German "stump" (cf. English, stump/y
> + stub).
>
> Then the Romanian synonyms "ciunt" as well as "ciot" and
> "cioat&". The Rum. dictionary says ciunt < ciot + ciung.
> And for "ciot" (that has all Stumpf, Stummel, stump, stub
> connotations), the same dictionary's pointer -> Ital.
> ciotto.
>