Re: Walachians are placed far North the Danube in Nestor

> Questions: is the asteroid metaphor commonly employed?

The metaphor itself was my own invention (an ad-hoc inspiration :)).

> And where is the impact assumed to have taken place?

Methinks most of the interprets say the 7th-9th c.

> I would like to see a thorough modern analysis of the Slavic
> component of the DR vocabulary from the point of view of determining
> the origin of the various elements. In lots of cases nobody can tell,
> probably.

It has been studied, and there are various valuable conclusions
(e.g. the one referring to the isoglosses that are relevant between the
Bulg-SCr Slavic branches).

> Then there is a strong Church Slavonic element, which is
> useless from the point of view of the study of the living language.
> If I'm correctly informed people generally assume that the earliest
> Slavic dialects of what is now Hungary to the east of the Danube and
> Rumania (to the extent that Slavic was spoken there) were
> linguistically Bulgarian. An example is the Hungarian toponym Pest
> (as present in Budapest). But by the time everything that is either
> not indicative or Church Slavonic is eliminated, not much may be
> left. There is a general feeling that initially Bulgarian was very
> big and Serbian+Croatian+Slovene small in comparison, contrary to
> today.
>
> Willem

George