Re: [tied] Re: Romanian Swadesh list

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:27:16 +0100, g <george.st@...> wrote:

>
>>all tot
>
>I'd suggest to add <tat> with the diacritical sign on "a" [t&t], which
>is still today a variant used by at least 50% (if not more) of the
>Daco-Romanian dialect speakers.
>
>>woman femeie
>
>Here, <muiere> [mu-'ye-re], and <femeie> only on the 2nd place.
>(A language isn't reduced only to the standard variant, printed
>in the national newspapers and spoken in the national radio-TV
>news bulletin.)

But a Swadesh list by convention must be restricted to one dialect (in this
case standard Romanian), and give only one form (the most common, "normal"
one) per entry.

>>man om
>
>and <barbat> (as in German <Mensch> + <Mann>)
>
>>person om
>
>?!?

I'm not a native speaker. In Spanish, <hombre> is the general term for man
and human being.

>>bird pasa~re
>>dog câine
>>louse pa~duche
>>tree arbore
>
>substratic synonym <copac> and Lat. synonym <pom>
>aren't allowed?

You must choose one. Now that you mention it, I guess <pom> is more common
than <arbore>?

>>dry sec
>
>hm... As beverage, anyway. But in other circumstances, rather
><uscat>, the participle of <a usca, uscare> (although <sec>
>really means "dry" and "barren" in almost all circumstances).

If it's the most common term, then it should be uscat.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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