Richard Wordingham wrote:
> You missed my point. You're saying that _h�r�_ has a different
> stress to the Greek. My question is, effectively, how long would
> the different stress *hor�* last in Romanian? I'm looking for
> answers like 'not long'or 'indefinitely'.
>
> Richard.
Ups... sorry, Now I see what you mean.
how should one answer here? The word in that form is felt as an infinitive
form of a verb and it does not fit at all the Rom. stress. Admiting the
borrowing from "hor�" the word should have been remodeled with a suffix for
making it to look like a noun. The change of the stress in borrowed words
is -I think- not usual in Romanian but I won't wonder to see some
counterexamples.
To summ up I will say, the stress won't be changed but the word will get
suffixed somehow for "rumunzing" it, thus the stress should be kept allways.
Of course I will find very interesting to see some counterexamples since I
indeed got very curious now.
Alex