An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Part I
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Abbreviations, Etymological Dictionaries and References
• a. Abbreviations
• b. Etymological and Bilingual Dictionaries with Etymological Relevance
• c. General References (Studies, Books)
• d. Author’s Studies and Books
• Chapter IGeneral Considerations
• A New Etymological Dictionary of Romanian. Why?
• Histories of the Romanian Language
• A Historical View of the ‘Romanian Etymological Problem’
• Thracians, Romanians, Albanians, Slavs: Ethnicity in Central and Southeast Europe
• General Problems
• The Languages Spoken in the Antiquity
• The Slavic Homeland
• The Structure of the Slavic Vocabulary
• Albanian and Albanians
• ‘The Homeland of the Romanians’
• The Vlachs (Vlakhs). Are They ‘A Kind of Romanians’ or ‘Genuine Romanians’?
• Back to Linguistics
• The ‘Balkan Linguistic Union’ (Balkansprachbund)
• Romanian, Its Origins and Its Neighbors
• The Structure of the Romanian Vocabulary
• Chapter IIThe Strata of the Romanian Vocabulary
• The Romanian Language: Its Stratification and the Statistical Data
• The Latin Heritage
• The Substratum Heritage
• Words Shared with Albanian of Non-Latin Origin
• The Slavic Influence
• Statistical Data
• 1.a. The Old Latin Heritage
• 1.b. The New Modern Borrowings of Latin Origin
• 2. The Chaotic Group Labeled ‘Unknown Etymology’ (‘et. nec.’) in DEX
• 3. The Romanian-Albanian Common Heritage
• 4. Re-organizing the ‘et. nec.’ Data as Substratum Elements
• 5. The Slavic Influence from the Statistical Perspective
• 6. The Hungarian (Magyar) Influence
• 7. The Turkish Influence
• The Swadesh List for Romanian
• An Alternative List of 100 Roots
• Analysis of the Two Lists
• Analysis of the Three Scenarios
• Chapter IIIPlace-Names and Personal Names
• Place Names
• Personal Names
• Chapter IVThe Romanian Language: Structure, Heritage, Etymological Problems
• A Brief Synthesis
• The Nominal Sphere
• Noun
• Adjective and Adverb
• Pronoun
• Article
• The Definite Article of Nouns and Adjectives
• The Definite Article in Albanian v. Romanian
• The Definite Article of Demonstratives and Adverbs
• Two Exceptional Forms: tată/tata ‘father’ and popă/popa ‘a priest’
• The Definite Article of Personal Names
• Summing Up
• Verb
• The Verbs a fi ‘to be’, a aveá ‘to have’ and the Suppletive Forms a vrea, a voi ‘to wish, will’
• Conclusions
• Numeral
• Non-Inflected Forms
• Derivational Means
• Reduplication
• Affixes: Prefixes and Suffixes
• Conclusions
• Chapter VRomanian Phonetics and Phonology
• The Specific Vowels of Romanian
• The Consonantal System of Romanian
• Diphthongs and Triphthongs
• The Phonemes [œ] and [œ̯]
• Letter i
• Historical Phonetics
• Some Basic Problems of Phonetic Evolution
• Colloquial Latin
• Tentative Phonetic Reconstructions for Thracian
• Vocalism
• Consonantism
• The Indo-European Sonants ḷ ṛ ṃ ṇ
• A General Tableau
• The Slavic Phonetic Inventory
• Vocalism
• Consonantism
• Interferences Between Proto-Romanian, Thracian and Slavic
• Treatment of Proto-Romanian Vowels
• Treatment of Proto-Romanian Consonants
• Addenda
• I. A Note on Romanian Spelling
• II. A Comparative Analysis of the Transcriptions Used for the Romanian Dialects
• Part II
• The Etymological Dictionary in alphabetical order
• Part III
• Addenda
• Glossary
• – Prehistoric Roots
• – Pre-Indo-European Roots
• – Proto-Boreal (‘Nostratic’) Roots
• – Indo-European Roots