Re: Loans, Slavs, Church

From: willemvermeer
Message: 35774
Date: 2005-01-04

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <st-george@...> wrote:

[WRV had written:

> >
> >... the North (IR&DR) is in turn just a shade more Tosk than the
South
> >(MR&AR). [...] with the Romanian north staying in contact longer
> >with Albanian (Tosk) than the Romanian south.

Then St.George wrote:

>
> Is that sure? For, AFAIK, in Aromanian the rhotacization of
> the [n] is more frequent than in DR (e.g. the proverb <<Bate
> fieru pira-i coad>>, DR <<Bate fieru pâna-i cald>>).
>

It looks as if I may have been carried away here and will have to do
some homework.


Willem