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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
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> Foreign influence is
> excluded since no folk around knows this phonetic development.
You are not right here: maybe you wanted to say "no today folk
around". L>R is a global transformation in Common Indo-Iranian.
Around (and inside) Dacia there were a lot of Iranian Tribes
(Scythians & Sarmatians) that arrived almost continously from sec
VII BCE until V CE, at least one of such tribe Aorsoi (Alanorsoi)
(attested at Ptolemeus, Strabo) clearly shows the rothacism in their
name: 'The White Alans'(Ossetic: urs / ors `white' -> Ossetic is
considered to have a Sarmatian or Scythian origin) < PIE *h1elu-so-
'(glowing) red, reddish-white' (see also Sanskrit aru.sá)
The intervocalic l-rothacism has in Proto-Romanian as an upper
limit sec V-VI CE and being not shared with PAlbanians (very strange
because as you said the n-rothacism is shared and take place after l-
rothacism) should be originated in the Northern Part of Balkans and
in Dacia (because at this upper timeframe the PAlbanians where for a
long time more or less in their today location)
Marius