[tied] Re: Some Albanian-Romanian concordances

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:

>> lepus, leporis in connection with Rum. iepure.
>> but lãbuS and labã in connection with Hungarian
>> láb [la:b] "leg, foot"
>
> can it be the Hungarian word is a loan from Romanian ?

No. Intervocalic /b/ dissapears from Latin to Romanian. The
same holds for substrate words.

> Are you indeed shure this is a loan from Hungarian?

Yes.

> I ask because the le:p- is a IE root which fets damm good the
> Rom. meanings

So what?!

Marius Iacomi