Re: [tied] Re: Historical impications of Romanian ecclesiastical te

m_iacomi wrote:

> The word "ecclesia" might also not have been too used in PBR
> since it was a Greek loan, a word for educated Latin people.
> In fact, Romanian word "bisericã" (with all its (sub-)dialectal
> forms) exhibits rhotacism of intervocalic /l/, as pointed out by
> George. That means it was in the language before first Slavic
> loanwords in Romanian -> it's inherited and not a medieval church
> loanword.
>
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi

I wonder that you do not take in consideration the /i/ there. The
question is not relevant for the Slavic issue of the discution but is
relevant about the way it was inherited/loaned. Sure is just the thing
the word belonged to the language before the slavs came.

alex