Re: [tied] Romanian Rothacism and the Iranian Influence

--- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex"
> <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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)

****GK: Your hypothesis makes no sense to me. Why
should Romanian rhotacism derive from Iranians when
there is no sign of it in Slavic, which had far more
intense relations with these tribes (up to the
adoption of the "god" word) than the proto-Romanians?*****



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