From: alex
Message: 27270
Date: 2003-11-16
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:it is a loan. Since the folk who got it _was not_ the Latin folk, it
>
>>> derive from Latin (Greek loanword) <gyrus>. The point is debatable
>>> but I would tend to agree with Rosetti & Philippide since AP 28
>>> ("gyrus non girus") already gives an account on how was the word
>>> pronounced in Late Latin, and Latin /gi/ gives Romanian /g^i/
>>> (as in "gingiva" > "gingie").
>>
>> I see it too that "gingie" is a loan from Latin;
>
> It is not "a loan from Latin". It is called "a Latin inherited
> word in Romanian". So, your "too" is not justified.
>
> Marius Iacomi