Re: [tied] Re: Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link between G

16-07-03 05:01, Lisa Darie wrote:

> Rmn. 'gradina' "garden",

By now even Alex will surely admit that <gradinã> ans <gradiSte> are
borrowings from Slavic (with suffixes of Slavic origin!): the metathesis
of *-or- > South Slavic *-ra- proves that beyound doubt.

> Italian 'giardino', French 'jardin'
> The words for garden in Italian, Romanian and French are closely
> related, which indicate their Latin origin.

Leaving Romanian aside, these other words represent loans from Germanic
into (some of) the Romance languages (French, Provencal, Italian,
Spanish and Portuguese).

> The presence of the word in
> Slavic languages certainly proves they were borrowed from the Romanian
> language, the only Latinic language of contact. Italian and French
> languages did not borrow the word from Slavic or Romanian. Italian,
> French and Romanian are genetically related languages.
>
> Latin 'cardo' "major NS road' - Rome
> 'Decumanus' "major EW road"
> See Lat. cardo - Rmn. gardu "fence" - ardh - ard - Rmn. arat "ploughed'

Accidental similarities.

Piotr