From: alex
Message: 35660
Date: 2004-12-25
>There are Serbs & Bulgarians which refugeed North to Danube as the Ottoman
> PS: Inter alia, North Romania has lost the Romance word for "plough"
> <aratru>; this has been preserved by Aromanians living in Greece,
> FYROM and S-Albania. These also preserved <c�mp�nile> for "bells",
> which is also lost to N-R. The N-R also lost <ma> (cf. with Italian
> <ma>), ie, this has been preserved only in (approx.) Oltenia in the
> interogatory locution "Machea?" which is dwindling and unknown to an
> overwhelming majority of Romanians (native-speakers of the
> "Dacoromanian" dialect). So, these and myriads of other cases
> illustrate that the carriers of the DR were once thoroughly exposed
> to a coexistence with both south-Slavic branches: the Serbo-Croatian
> and the Bulgarian. And where could that have happened? Of course to a
> far less extent in those "Walachias" mentioned by Greek chroniclers
> in Greek regions for the 9th c. (those must've been only the outer
> waves after the Slavic impact).