[tied] Re: Moment

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:

>>> or this is a recently term like "aromanians"?
>>
>> The _scientific_ name "Aromanians" is recent (G. Weigand), as well
>> as the other (slightly older, though) "Macedo-Romanians". In their
>> dialect, the ethnic name is inherited, be it "armân(u)" or other
>> equivalent form. The scientific term is nothing else but educated
>> adaptated form of their own ethnical name.
>
> I guess I wrote "aromanians" when I said "recent" and not "armân".

Since you made a mix-up of terms, it was better to eliminate any
doubts. Relationship between modern English "Aromanian" and ethnical
inherited name "armân(u)" is the same as between modern English
"Romansch" and language inherited name "rumantsch": derived from.

> BTW *romana is given in my dictionary with an "*" and the
> expresion "lingua romana" is not at all given.

Have you ever thought about changing dictionary?!
C. Tacitus: "ut qui modo linguam Romanam abnuebant [...]"

Marius Iacomi