Re: [tied] Romanian Swadesh list

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:08:10 +0200, "Bogdan Giusca (disc)"
<disclist@...> wrote:

>MC> As far as I can see, there are 2 definitely non-Romance words:
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>MC> sand nisip < Slavic
>MC> road drum < Greek
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>MC> What are the etymologies (say, according to DEX)?
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>MC> I'm not sure about:
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>MC> neck gât/gît origin?
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>sl. glutu

E.g. Serbo-Croatian gut < *gl.tU.

>MC> foot picior
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>lat. petiolus

I forgot to check Buck's dictionary. About <picior> it says: < Lat
*peciolus, probably from *pediciolus "little foot".

>MC> bite mu$ca (like Spa. mascar < masticare?)
>
>unknown

Buck says: like Ital. dial. mottsikare < VLat. *mucceus (Lat. mu:cus)
"snout" (> Maced-Rom muts "snout").

>MC> kill omorî
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>sl. umoriti
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>MC> cloud nor
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>lat. nubilum

Of course!

>MC> ash(es) frasin (< fraxinu the tree?)
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>lat. fraxinus, yes it's the tree
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>ash is cenu$a (lat. cinusia)

OK. So the final score is:

Vulgar Latin: 96
Slavic: 3
Greek: 1
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TOTAL 100

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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