Piotr wrote:
>I said it was unprovable, not absolutely impossible. However, if you
>make a bold claim, you need good evidence to support it, and the
>burden
>of proof is on you, not on your critics. May-have-beens are not
>enough.
I'm dissapointed about your answer. I thought that you would be the
first to recognize based on the presented arguments that their is at
least an issue regarding your supposition.
If on this topic somebody need to come with additional arguments
for sure you are that person not me.
For each of your examples (szerda,zsolga,szalma) I came back with
attested forms that shows the epenthetic vowels: this fact indicating
also the traces of Slavic Methatetic Form in some cases.
So is you that need to show us an attested form of
Hungarian 'szarka' with this epenthetic vowel (if you need a Magyar
Student to find out this form why you wrote in advance several
messages based only on the supposition "it should be a Slavic Loan"
and not waited first for the feedback of this Magyar Student?)
On the other hand, if you go further and suppose that even without
any trace this 'should be in any case a Slavic loan' (by doing this
you will create (once again) another singularity with this 'szarka'
(all the other Hun. words showing attested traces of these vowels)) :
by doing this, is you and not me that will remain in the 'May-have-
been-s' area ...
And as you said : "May-have-beens are not enough."
Only The Best,
marius