From: g
Message: 28952
Date: 2003-12-30
>>> I wanted to say two things, theI understand Marius's assertion above this way:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Definitely. Virtually on every such Hung. word the stress
>> falls on the 1st syllable. And in Romanian loanwords are
>> treated according to rules specific to the Romanian
>> language. (So that I'd dare say having a look at stresses
>> isn't of too much help to whatever inferred conclusion.)
>
> This is completely ignorant, as I said. Romance lgs accentual system
> and
> Slavic original system *cannot* be compared.