Re: [tied] HUNGARIAN ARANJOS GOLD

Dear Marius

The analysis is quite good, only a slight correction:
The Hung. for "gold" is "arany"
The actual suffix is "-os". Hence "aranyos", nowadays used mostly in a
figurative sense :"nice, cute".
If, thus, your analysis refers to the Hung. noun "arany" "gold", it is
fine with me.
Cristian

> The hungarian word aranjos 'gold' (-anjos is a suffix in Hungarian)
> seems to be a loan from a local population that:
> 1. has loaned Latin 'aurum'
> 2.a and has reduced auC-u to aC-u see Latin auscultare > Romanian
> ascultare , Latin Augustus > OldRomanian Agust
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> 2.b from a population that globally reduced au>a as in Albanian
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> so this population was either a Romanized one or an Albanoid one
> possesin some important Latin loans :)
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> So a single loan is enough to tell us who was that local population
> that Hungarians found extracting the Gold in the 'Gold Valley' (Arjesh)
> of the Apuseni Mountains when the Hungarians arrived around 1000 AC.
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