Altertümliche Termini der rumänischen Viehzucht slavischer Herkunft
Archaic Animal Husbandry Terminology of Slavic Origin in the Romanian Language

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses a number of Romanian dialectal words and expressions associated with: (1) coat colours of farm animals, like ‘black’, ‘pied’, ‘spotted white’, ‘piebald’ and ‘light brown’; and (2) different types of sheep earmarks. The study indicates that many archaic terms used to denote these meanings are Slavic in origin. In some cases, the very phonetics of the Romanian words in question proves beyond doubt that they are early borrowings from the Proto-Slavic language.

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