Re: [tied]rym ( it was ANUS)

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From: fortuna11111
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Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [tied]rym ( it was ANUS)


> Bulgarians, some of the oldest and long-standing neighbors of the
Byzantine Empire, are Iranian. They mixed with the Slavs in the Balkans and
eventually their language turned into an amalgam of both Slavic and Iranian.
I think you do a lot of thought-reading up there.

Eva, would you care to elaborate on this? "Bulgarians are Iranian" ... in
what sense?

> We still use a large number of Iranian words, in spite of our language
having turned
predominantly Slavic.

Are you sure there's a significant difference between the Iranian lexical
contribution to Bulgarian and Iranian loans in any other Slavic language?
What are the particular Iranian words present in Bulgarian but absent from
the rest of Slavic?

Just curious,

Piotr