Re: Romanian Loan in OCS?

>so we get <król>, <král>, <kralj>, <korol>, as if the
>word dated back to Proto-Slavic.

Did the official -Latinized- Carolus play any role here?

><sclavus> is just a Latin adaptation of the Slavic ethnonym
>(Latin had no /sl-/, so /-k-/ was automatically inserted to
>make the word pronouncible in terms of Latin phonotactics).

That's what subdialects in Western Romania still do, e.g. in
some Slav. loans e.g. <sluga>, <slãnina>, <slab> => <scluga>,
<sclanina>, <sclab>.

>Piotr

George