On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:40:39 +0200, alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>I am not aware of Germanic borrowings where a Latin /o:/ shows a
>Germanic /u:/, but this is a possiblity even if a uncontrolable or less
>controlable one. The second posiblity is on your hand. There is the
>Romanian "rum-" (rumân) there for becoming Slavic "y". And this is a
>posibility too, isn't it?
No.
Another possibility may be Albanian or a similar language. I don't know
when o: > e: > e is dated in Albanian, but supposing it was already
happening, while the developments e:/a: > o: and u: > y: had not, then
Ro:ma must have been borrowed as Ru:ma, which gives Ry:m, which may be a
source for Slavic Rim. Except that Albanian itself would not have lost
final -a (> -ë).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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