From: Mate Kapović
Message: 28881
Date: 2003-12-29
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE: etyma forCrãciun,RomanianforChristmas
> The substitution of a similar-sounding Slavic suffix would not be an
> unprecedented phenomenon.
Yes, but you are forgeting that there is no real reason why this Slavic
*-un7 would have to be stressed. Every Slavic sufix (at least in the earlier
stages) could have been stressed (in a. p. b or c for example) or not
stressed (in a. p. a). So if this Hungarian word reached East Slavic it
would probably be interpreted as a. p. a (always stem-stressed). You can
always guess some kind of unknown analogy happened but this also undermines
the plausability of the scenario you gave as a possible alternative.
Mate