Re: [tied] Re: etyma for Craciun...

06-01-04 20:33, Jim Rader wrote:

> If (after a vacation) I may return to a well-beaten dead horse

OK, but change the subject line and don't return to the lexemes already
discussed (unless you're sure you can throw new light on them). The
embargo remains in force.

Piotr

> --how much of the core Christian vocabulary in Romanian indisputably
> dates back to earliest Balkan Romance? I can only think of
> <biserica~> (L. basilica), <preot>, <a~nger> OTOH.... I would assume
> that most later vocabulary is Greco-Slavic, given the history of
> Romanian orthodoxy. How old is <PaSti>, "Easter"? Are there any
> other church feast names of Balkan Romance origin? The history of
> Romanian Christianity would seem to have a bearing on the <Cra~ciun>
> question.