Re: [tied] RE: etyma for Crãciun, RomanianforChristmas

> >
> > So just to resume a little Applied Logic here that belong to

Mate :

> >
> > " If we have 3 different languages a,b,c and a common word x in
> > these languages
> > if a is a Slavic language than x is a Slavic Word."
>
> Aren't you fighting a straw man of your own making? Of course there

are

> Slavic words of Romanian origin, and even Albanian words borrowed

into

> Slavic via Romanian (one example from my native Polish is

<watra> 'a

> fire' in the dialect of the Tatra highlanders). I can't speak for

Mate,

> but as a result of the present discussion I'm inclined to accept

the

> Balkan Romance etymology of <koroc^jun> etc., with borrowing from
> Romanian into Slavic rather than the other way round.
>

Wasn't the name of the mountain range the Beskidi supposedly of
Albanic origin too? If so, why would Romanian be necessary as an
intermediary for <watra>, another word from the mountains?

Torsten