Re: Loans, Slavs, Church

>The notion strikes me as weird. Quite a few of those words are
>very ordinary pan-Slavic stuff.
>
>>Now let see see some words without methathesis:
>>Rom. "bârlog"(den, lair), Slavic "brUlogU"
>>Rom. "gârb" (bent), Slavic "grUbU"

[Romanian <gârbov> also "gibbous;" as well as the other reflex
<gârbitzã>; this one means the upper back in animals & the nape
of the neck in humans; cf. Bulg. g&rbav]

BTW, Hungarian has, at least these, too:
<barlang> ['bOrlOng]
<görbe> ['görbæ] "curved; crooked; devious"
(cf. <görbe lábú> "O-beinig")

[KRV/KRB-GRB?]

>Since "gârlã" is obviously the most straightforward
>way for Romanian to adopt a Slavic form [grlo]

Yes, this seems so - even today. Therefore, almost in no Romanian
radio or TV newscast is possible to hear Brc^ko [brc^ko], but
[bIrc^ko], ie, with the auxiliary Romanian vowel. And invariably
instinctively it is put before the <r>, to form a [bIrc^] syllable
and never a [brIc^] one.

>Willem

George