Re: Historical implications... (basilica)

alex wrote:

>The word was preserved not only by Romanians in "biserica"
>(you have to see that the word "biserica" cannot derive drom
>the known form "basilica" since never a > i thus by no way
>basilica > biserica

Today's standard Romanian "biserica" < "besearica"
[be-'sea-ri-ka], which is the older, traditional
variant.

BTW, unlike the Rumansh and Vegliot variants,
the Romanian ones are rhotacized (l > r). This
phenomenon is quite old; seemingly less or
no longer productive during the Slavic impact.

George