Re: [tied] Re: Some Albanian-Romanian concordances

m_iacomi wrote:

> --- 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.

abur ?

Mr Iacomi as usual knows just Latin and here he "forget" the exceptions
which even in its favorite relationship Latin > Rom happens.

>
>> I ask because the le:p- is a IE root which fets damm good the
>> Rom. meanings
>
> So what?!
>
> Marius Iacomi

Right, so what? It is just an observation. In your opinion, for sure a
simple "aburealã" since in your opinion the substratual words does not
contain intervocalic "b" and you are accomodate not with mentaining of
the old semantism but with "explanable" semantical changes in some
"particular cases" even if these are over hunderds.

Alex