Re: [tied] Re: ANUS

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> I don't think so. In <rumân>, /u/ comes (regularly) from unstressed
> /o:/, but Slavic has <rim> (<rym>) where the vowel reflects
> _stressed_ /o:/. Germanic accounts for that, but Romanian doesn't.
>
> Piotr

Almost right. The stress in "rumân" is on /a/ since the suffix is the
one who took the accent from "rum-". Thus for Rome the word in old
Romanian must have been *Rúm(a)
rúma +en > rumen > rumân

Question: is here again a coincidence that the Germans say for romanians
"rumäne" or this is indeed zurückzuführen on the ancient *rumen? What is
your opinion about?

alex