When Could Be Dated „the Earliest Slavic Borrowings in Romanian‟?
When Could Be Dated „the Earliest Slavic Borrowings in Romanian‟?

Summary/Abstract: The paper briefly analyses some crucial elements leading to understanding the Slavic ethnogenesis in the interval from 6th to 10th centuries A.D. These data allow us to note that there is no argument supporting the hypothesis that there were "Old Slavic elements in Romanian" (i.e. 6th to 7th centuries A.D.) The author compares two studies, one written by Gh. Mihăilă (1971) and a newer one of Ivan Duridanov (1991), which are practically irreconcilable: the former (Mihăilă) brings forth arguments supporting the hypothesis that oldest Slavic borrowings in Romanian cannot be dated earlier than 12th century A.D., whereas the latter (Duridanov) continues to support the older hypothesis that oldest Slavic borrowings may be dated in the 6th century A.D. The data and arguments recently presented in Paliga and Teodor 2009 permit to have a clearer view of the realities in the first millennium A.D. and to try explanations based on solid arguments, not on circumstantial speculations. Instead of conclusions, the author analyses the relevant case of form cumătră.

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