Re: [tied] Dacian - /H/ -> seems not possible

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> Latin had no /h/ (it lost it very early on). Therefore, no native

Romanian

> words have /h/, and no substrate /h/'s would have survived among a
> Romanized population.

Does that follow? Where do Scots <-lz-> and <-nz-> (originally
palatalised) come from? I'm assuming Gaelic, but should that be
seen as a superstrate?

Richard.