Re: Loans, Slavs, Church

From: willemvermeer
Message: 35779
Date: 2005-01-04

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> This is not true at all. The n-Rothacization in N-W part (mainly
> Transylvania) of Daco-Romanian Dialect were rectracted, so the
words
> repassed to n, after sec XVI.
>
> But the Old Romanian texts are full of such attested forms
> (see 'Manuscrisul de la Ieud', 'Codex Sturdzanus' etc...
> 'bire' > bine
> 'mirure' > minune
>


Note also that n-rhotacism is very common in Istro-Romanian.


Willem.