From: alex
Message: 22849
Date: 2003-06-08
> I disagree. Bulgaria is an example of just the opposite. OrI guess it will be of great interess to show these Iranian words into
> modern Bulgarian, for that matter. We still use a large number of
> Iranian words, in spite of our language having turned
> predominantly Slavic.
> The term "gUrci" seems to be like in aromanian "gret,i" whereIt is not an enigma. It is a simply methathesised word of gret,i
>> "t,"= in bulgarian "c".
>
> Alex, this word corresponds to the Russian "greki", for example.
> It is no enigma.
>To us is not derogative. It has no suffix which made it derogative.
>> BTW, which is the name in Bulgarian for Albanians ?
>
> Albanci.
>
> The romanians use
>> the "arnãut" which is a turkish loan (arnavud) which desemned
> the
>> mercenar Albanians soldier in the Turkish army.
>
> This is a derrogative name, which is used, I think, with reference
> to Albanians, but it is a clear late loan from Turkish.
>You are right. The romanians arrived from Mars in the XIV century and
> I guess the term
>> "rumunzko/rumânzko" in all slavic languages is a new one
> from the own
>> way of romanians to call themselvs.
>
> Note that Romania is a very late event in the Balkans. Hence the
> name should also be comparatively new.
>
> Eva