From: alex
Message: 26466
Date: 2003-10-15
>> It doesn't matter from which language it derived,Are you still OK? There is "oaspãt" and "oaspete". The form "oaspe"
>
> Oh yes, it does. It does depend in which language are you trying
> to "reconstruct" those forms, and around which century.
>
>> the /oa/ is typical Romanian here and the /ã/ can be just from
>> an /a/ or /e/.
>
> As said, the similar Latin [ospe] did _not_ give any /&/, so you
> have already a hint about pertinence of your "*hospe" (that is 0.0).
> No. I'm making precise statements you fail to understand.More better for what I sustain.
>
>>> Coming to the proposed word, Latin /(h)ospe(s)/ became at some
>>> stage [ospe] in Late Latin. Any similar substrate word "*hospe"
>>> would have had a similar treatment, so one cannot get a final /&/.
>>> More than that, /h/ would not have survived.
>>
>> Thus if the "h" became mute _already_ in Late Latin,
>
> It was muted even prior of Late Latin, you should have already
> had in mind this simple information.
>I guess you never made up your mind about this "h" and its phonological
>> then it could not be borrowed into Rom. with "h".
>
> Latin loanwords in Romanian are _only_ a few neologisms, not the
> basical vocabulary.
>It does. Since there was no "h" in Latin you won't expect to have "h" in
>> And this explains why we have substratual "h" in initial words
>> and no "h" from Latin words.
>
> It does not. We still do not have substrate words with initial /h/.
>I do answer. In my opinion Romanian is not the Latin language. It has
>>> Supposed substrate but not substrate -- at least for Romanian.
>>
>> Your opinion based on the ferm idea the Romanian is the Latin
>> Language and not a Language which has a lot of Latin loans.
>
> Ooops. Do you mean Romanian is not deriving from Latin?! (may I
> remind you that Piotr already banned explicitely any kind of thread
> on this delusional topic here, on cybalist). So are you contesting
> what all specialists admit as common knowledge?! Please do answer.
>If you don't want to understand the answer I cannot help.
>>>> I don't bring here as example the word "harmãsar" (stallion)
>>>
>>> Why do you mention it then?! just in order to prove that debating
>>> that word some weeks ago didn't had any inpact on your RAM?
>>
>> No. just because for the harmasar it is given as etymology -missing
>> something better - this "equs admisarrius".
>
> Re-read my text. {Why did you mention that word if you were not
> intending it as an example?} Should I repeat myself another couple
> of times before you getting it?!
>As well as the word missing in whole Romance but present in Romanian has
>>> So?! does that make the word from substrate?! Al. Philippide
>>> and Al. Rosetti mention this possibility, but nobody else does,
>>> you don't wonder why?! The term is found only in Daco-Romanian,
>>> initial /h/, only one derivative... well, facts do speak.
>>
>> Missing the word in Aromanian HAS NO VALUE!!
>
> The word missing in all other 3 Romanian dialects has some
> probability value in the sense of lowering it.
>Rosetti does not mention it. Al. Philippide too.
>> "Viezure" is too not in Aromanian .
>
> Bad choice: "viezure", "yezura" are Aromanian forms.
>I don't intend to repeat myself. I was speaking here about "h" and you
>>> Still a diversionist action.
>>
>> You are just disperately blushing, that is all.
>
> Watch your language. Vinereanu's bla-bla about some other word
> has nothing to do with this topic.
>I did not misread your words. You simply begun to argue in your usual
>>>> Turkish has no aspiration here.
>>>
>>> Still no substrate.
>>> Since interaction with Slavic, Romanian got the phoneme /h/ as new
>>> member of its' system, with equal rights and the possibility to be
>>> written down if instated for some expressive reason.
>>
>> Ha! Yes. And all the interjection who I presented once here which
>> beginn with "h" are all the result from the Slavic contact..
>
> You misread my words. Read them again the necessary number of times
> to understand. Focus on the last sentence of the phrase.
>
> Marius Iacomi