Re: PS Emphatics

On 2008-02-04 23:15, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>> The INHERITED words in
>> Romanian are those of Latin origin.
>
> It depends on how you you define Inherited
>
> If Spanish is the inherited language of Maya-People,etc.. than ok...
> If English is the inherited language of Irish-People than ok...

Any Gaelic words in Hiberno-English or Maya words in Mexican Spanish are
loans. Linguistic transmission should not be confused with ethnic,
cultural or biological continuity.

> NEXT: THE MEANINGS OF ALL THE OLD SLAVIC LOANS IN ROMANIAN FITS
> PERFECTLY THE MEANINGS OF THE ATTESTED OCS WORDS...I DON'T KNOW ANY
> COUNTER-EXAMPLE

Of course for obvious historical reasons most Slavic loans in Romanian
are of CS origin, but there are other layers of borrowing as well,
starting from the most archaic loans like <baltã> 'pond' and <daltã>
'chisel', which cannot be CS. The fact that you write something in block
capitals doesn't make it an inviolable law.

Piotr