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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> > Wurcza terra,
> > Burzenland, Lschf., Siebenbürgen
>
>
> The German colonists from this region are attested in
> documents as early as 1192 when <terra Bozza> is mentioned
> as being settled by Germans (<Theutonici>).
>
> (For what it's worth, it says that 'Romanian word <bârsä> is
> supposedly of Dacian origin'.)
> Brian
The Romanian word is usually seen as being the counterpart of the
Albanian "vërz" but to me , neither the phonological aspect neither
the semantic aspect of the word "bârsã" cannot be related to
Alb. "vërz".
Due the meaning of the word as "heel, sole" and its phonological
aspect, I think the word could be related with the Germanic family
of "ferse", [ MHG mhd. versen(e) OHG. fers(a)na supposed to derive
from an PreGmc *fersno: ( Gothic "fairzna")] and if this should be of
Dacian origin, then one will have a Dacian word "bârsã" for "heel".
I wonder if one can get the "f" in German "ferse" from an
older "b/bh" keeping in mind the both German Lautverschiebung
( something kind of b/bh > p > f ) ????
Alex