Re: [tied] Slavic "o" ( it was Romanian Loans in OCS?)

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> I think that in this O-list of Slavic loans in Romanian, there are
> many Turkish words, like ortak 'companion, copartner' from Turkish
> <orta> 'medial, middle' (cf. ortalama 'to moderate', ortakluk 'co
> partnership', ortadaki 'middle'). Also I think that word <otava> is
> of Turkish origin: <ot> 'grass, herb' and probably Slavic suffix -
> ava, besides Slavic word <trava> 'grass', present also in Albanian.
> Because you didn't give the meaning in English, I am not sure about
> word <olmaz> that sound also as Turkish one.
> It will be very helpful if you give also English meaning of the
> words, as for Romanian, as for Slavic.
>
> Regards,
> Konushevci
> ************

I can help just with the meaning in Romanian and the meaning in Serbian,
Croatian and Bulgarian.
For the meaning in "Slavic" I have to ask too:-))

Alex