george knysh wrote:
> "kosciol" in Polish). The basic Slavic term is a
> borrowing from Germanic, I think, since the earliest
> missionaries to the Moravians were German clerics.
> Anyway, does Romanian have "tserkov" et sim.?*******
Yes, kind of. The word is "Târcovnic" and this is a person who makes
clean in the church, and sometimes sing in the church. The only
derivatives of it is "Târcovnicesk" ( thing reagarded to the Târcovnic)
DEX gives the word tarcovnic as loan from Slavic "crUkovInikU."
And now I make big eyes. The slavic form is with methathesis. There must
have been an "*cUrkovInikU" for having the Romanian Word. Or are this
relation to interpret in other way?
If not, then the word must have entered the langauge before the
metathesis in South Slavic, even if this word is related just to
administration and organisation of the church.
alex