Re: The Romanian Family name Pencea

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
>
> There is a Romanian Family Name Pencea /penc^a/
>
> Is strong related to the Romanian Areal: see this Google search
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?
> hl=en&q=pencea&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
> that gives you only Romanian Persons.
>
> I cannot stop myself, not to think, that its meeaning is 'The
> Fifth' or
> something similar and is an indication that the Proto-Albanian
> reconstruction of 'five' is a correct one:
>
> Proto-Albanian Reconstruction of today Albanian /pes&/ 'five' is
> *penc^e/*penc^a:
>
> Romanian Preserved the c^ from of the Substratum (see
> cioara /c^wara/ )
>
> Marius
>

Phoneticaly the "e" in Pencea does not speak about an old
name. I would expect "Pincea" since each old "-anC-" or "-enC" and
sometimes even "-unC" gives an "ânC". Later, this "ânC" changed
to "inC" if in the next syllable is followed by an "i" or "e".

( see "sfânt" versus "sfintsi", vânãt instead of "vinetsi", as for
names, see Pintea as something very appropiate to Pencea ) etc.

For sustaining this is an old name and implicitely it should have
something to do with the Albanian "pesë" there should be some
examples of "ânC" becomming "enC" in a certain phonological medium.
Are there any?

Alex