From: fortuna11111
Message: 22809
Date: 2003-06-07
>Outlook(TM).
> --- fortuna11111 <fortuna11111@...> wrote:
> > > GK: "Roman" is "Rzymianin" in Polish, as far
> > as
> > > I remember. And in Ukrainian it's "Rymlianyn". Not
> > a
> > > borrowing from Serbo-Croatian either.*****
> >
> > You have the same word in Bulgarian and Russian, not
> > that I get it
> > what the fight is all about.
> >
> > Eva
>
> ******GK: It seems to be one of the many footnotes to
> footnotes to footnotes of Alex's main goal in life or
> at least on this list: to demonstrate that the
> Romanian language is not exactly a "Romance" language
> (as the mainstream has it) but a descendant of
> Thracian, which in turn was pretty close to Latin,
> which explains why so many brilliant minds have
> mistakenly believed Romanian to be a daughter language
> thereof. And that's as close as I can come to
> identifying our Alexiad. If that's not it, then I
> admit to being thoroughly confused.******
> >
> >
>
>
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