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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:
... an awful lot.
But if there is a Romanian word hoaspã 'husk, pod', I find it pretty
obvious that it is from Latin hospes, -item 'host'. The semantic
development would be much as in German Patrone 'cartridge',
ultimately some form of Latin patro:nus. The h- would be a learned
restoration.
Jens