From: S & L
Message: 29449
Date: 2004-01-12
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From: altamix
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004
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Rom. "pitã"= bread
cf DEX pitã is a loan from Bulgarian "pita" . Meaning and etymology
of Bulgarian "pita" is unknown to me.
Alex
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PITÃ is the Romanian regionalism [in Banat and Transilvania] or obsolete for
PI^INE [coming from the Latin PANEM]= bread.
I do not understand why DEX is listing it as having Bulgarian origin at all;
the word is quite spread: Greek, Albanian, Serbian, Hungarian,
Jewish-Spanish, Calabrese dialect and also in Arabic PITTA [bread stuffed
with meat and spicy sauces]; Turkish PITA (pitta, pide) [flat hollow
unleavened bread which can be split open to hold a filling].
S o r i n