I was looking at the 100 Swadesh list for Romanian.
As far as I can see, there are 2 definitely non-Romance words:
sand nisip < Slavic
road drum < Greek
I'm not sure about:
neck gât/gît origin?
foot picior
bite mu$ca (like Spa. mascar < masticare?)
kill omorî
cloud nor
ash(es) frasin (< fraxinu the tree?)
What are the etymologies (say, according to DEX)?
For comparison, the English Swadesh list contains 3 words of Romance origin
(person, mountain, round), 5 of Scandinavian origin (skin, egg, big(?),
die, root), and 1 of unknown etymology (dog).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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