Re: Romanian Swadesh list

From: g
Message: 28168
Date: 2003-12-08

> >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").

The authors (many of them also authors of the later edition, DEX, 1975)
of the previous dictionary edition (called "Dictionarul Limbii Romîne
Moderne", ed. 1958ff) had proposed Lat. *muccicare.

>Miguel

George