Re: [tied] Slavic suffixes in Romanian [was: From longer to shorter]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 23702
Date: 2003-06-21

21-06-03 21:17, Lisa Darie wrote:

> Tell me please, what are the suffixes borrowed by the Romanian
> language from Slavic?

There are quite a few, e.g. -etz (cântaretz 'singer' <-- -IcI), -cã
(româncã 'Romanian woman' <-- -Uka), -itzã (linguritzã 'teaspoon' <--
*-ica), -i$te (porumbi$te 'maize field' <-- *-is^c^e).

Piotr