Romanian <băiat> `boy, young', according to DEX with unknown etymology, I guess should be an substantivized adjective in –at and the root preserves Alb,...
... i stil prefer to see the word related to Albanian barrë since the word meant _initialy_ "children" and after a time developed to "boy". There is stil...
I have in mind to repeat Mann's view about that Moldavia reflects Albanian names: mal and dhe/dheu, to my view, very plausible explanation, for as I found out...
... Yeap. And one of meanings of Rum. "a băia" means "to give birth". ... It happen there are other dictionaries beside DEX and for instance in the dictionary...
My current opinion: I will link baiat, bade & baci to the same semantic family : I think , to link baiat with bade & baci and next with the Balto- Slavic...
... From: alexandru_mg3<mailto:alexandru_mg3@...> To: balkanika@yahoogroups.com<mailto:balkanika@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:55 AM ...
... like 'fellow member of a clan-like group'. Maybe now you will change your mind viewing all the below forms that reflects : *bheH2- I will re-post one of my...
For Patrick, 'The first one' that linked "Lith. batis 'Vater, Väterchen, Freund'" with English boy: was [Fraenckel] "engl. boy aus ae. Bia (Eigenn.)." =>...
... you should be aware. and there is no condition of having an adjectiv even if it can be an adjectiv as well. "a vâna" is a verb but "vânat" is a noun and...
... an ... adjective ... But 'băiat' can never be an Adjective in Romanian this is what I wanted to say (that is not the case for "vânat" ex: 'lupul vânat ...
Sorry please read: (you cannot form sentences in Romanian and to use 'băiat' as an Adjective inside) ... <alexandru_mg3@> ... be ... adjectival ... as ... ...
<baba> 'father' is a Persian loan via Turkish. ... an ... adjective ... But 'băiat' can never be an Adjective in Romanian this is what I wanted to say (that...
... the problem you have here is that you use the standard literar Romanian but you let by side the subdialectal forms where the verb a băia has the said...
... Romanian ... has ... be ... but is ... and ... Maybe true, but I'm not aware about this. For sure, in Transylvania Cluj-Turda region (from where I am) for ...
... case ... use ... I wish I should have a text here for you but I don't have it here. I just speak from the normal way of the language. We have a verb and ...
... There is no such construction in Romanian or at least I never encountered it. For sure the regional verb 'a băia' "to born" (present in Dictionar de ...
... hard to say exactly because of the several theoretical phonetic possibility. My question here is why is there widely the form "băiat" and not "băiet" ?...
Probably nursery word from a reduplicated form *ba-ba (cf. Greek pa-pa). I know that I have read it somewhere, when I learned New Persian, but now I can't...
... As I know e/accented > je/ja that is clearly the case of băiat/băiet The sub-dialectal form "băiet" (I will add the oldest one -> please check the...
... there is no "e" > "ia" directly but under the influence of "ă" in the next syllable. Say: if there is no "ă" in the next syllable, then there is no "ia":...
... 40yahoogroups.com>, ... băiat/băiet ... please ... with ... I'm glad, at least, that you agree that the form finished in -et and not in -at ...:) The...
... Good question: this really shows that "je/ja Rules of Romanian Linguists" are still not good enough... My explanation is that one of open/closed syllable...
... that is the problem here !!!! the *eta should yeld Rum. *-eată and *-etu should yeld Rum. *iet ... I don't try to connect them at all now. I just try to...
... No. PIE Masc. o-stem (like *bH(e)h2-eto) gave a Dacian Masc. ending -a like Dacian *ba(j)eta (see also Dacian Masc. *bradza)=> then the Balkan Latin...
... In Dacian it should have been the contrast between masculine and feminine and they could not end both in "a". Please do not forget that the change of "a"...
... Rum. ... No. Romanain ending -u- is of Latin origin and 'arrived' from a non- accented PIE -o-. In Dacian & PAlb there wasn't at all a short o (PIE o >...