Cît din substratul lexical al limbii române e dacic? / How much of the lexical substratum of the Romanian language is Dacian?
Jan. 1, 2019
Keywords:
historical linguistics
Dacian language
Romanian language
lexical substratum
lingvistică istorică
limba dacilor
limba română
substrat lexical
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Abstract
The article is a comprehensive review of the research (to date) on the lexical substratum of Romanian. For many
words belonging to the substratum, Celtic, Alpine, Italic etymologies are available. We should therefore dispense
with the Dacian, racian or Balcanic hypothesis for most of these words, all the more so considering the scant
evidence about these languages.
e methodological rigor imposes a conclusion – that there is no compelling evidence of an influence of the
Dacian language on the Latin that would later evolve into Romanian.
