Re: etyma for Craciun...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, at 04:08 PM, m_iacomi wrote:
>
>> Well, it is not to be dismissed so fast (as pointed out by George,
>> a Hungarian "a" without stress mark is to be read [O], the stress
>> pattern did not prevent Romanians to modify it in most Hungarian
>> loanwords and I fail to see why on earth some Slavs couldn't have
>> done the same).
>
> Where Hungarians needed auxiliary vowels, Romanians maintained
> those initial clusters easily.

Mea culpa: my phrase was unclear. I wanted to say two things, the
second being that Hungarian stress pattern (consistently on the
first syllable) was modified by Romanians in most loanwords from
Hungarian ("belSúg", "chezáS", "ducát", "fãgãduí", "heleStéu",
"vicleán", "oráS", "lãcáS", "tâlhár", "imáS", "apród", etc.) and
the same could very well done by Slavs too.

Regards,
Marius Iacomi