ISSN-L 2392-6627
Mihai Vinereanu
former professor City University of New York
Romanian plug ‘plough’ (Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian plug id) is considered to be of Slavic origin, namely from OCS plugъ id., from Miklosich and Cihac (second half of 19th century, and all…
In the 19th century, a Hungarian baron Jόsef Kemény concocted an inscription, in a ‘Proto-Hungarian’ dialect, which was said to have been written on a statuette representing a winged sphinx,…
Most ancient Greek proper names either names of gods, humans or animals as well as toponyms and hydronyms cannot be explained by Greek language, but by other Indo-European language which…
The book Cultural Hybridization in the Contemporary Novel is concerned with the issue of cultural hybridization, deemed by the author to be a key concept for defining the world in…
The centum/satem distinction refers to the nature of the first two dialects that appeared in Proto-Indo-European, namely the different evolution of Proto-Indo-European palatal velars *k , *g and *g’h. The…
This is the third and the last part of nn etymological dictionary of the Thraco-Dacian language. spoken in Central Europe including the Balkan region which is, in fact, the ancestor…
The following is the second part of The Language of the Inscriptions of the Sinaia Tablets (a relatively small etymological dictionary of Dacian language), namely the nouns (see Verbs in…
There have been and there is still much controversy about the origin of Romanian language and people originating either from bad faith or ignorance. Basically, it comes down to two hypotheses: …
The Introduction investigates the origin of Romanian language from a new perspective. Due to the fact that most (86%) of the Romanian lexicon cannot be explained through Latin and it…
The goal of this journal is to address a number of little known aspects regarding the Romanian spirituality, language and culture. The linguistics articles will be presented from a new…