Despre latinitatea verbelor românești „mai frecvente” în secolul al XIX-lea
On the Latinity of the Romanian Verbs „occurring more frequently” during 19th century

Summary/Abstract: For the author of a Romanian grammar book from the beginning of the 19th century (Ioan Alexi, Grammatica daco-romana sive valachica, 1826), the selection of verbs which appear “more frequently in everyday speech” offers the necessary material for creating a model that can be followed in the use of language. During the broad re-Latinization/re-Romanization process of the Romanian language, usual Romanian words are compared to their Latin equivalents in the normative works of the Transylvanian School philologists. Paradoxically, the difference between the Latin word and the Romanian etymon underlines the proximity of Romanian to Latin and to the other Romance languages. Our approach suggests an etymological perspective upon the selected verbs and wants to sort them into categories which are relevant for the origin of the Romanian vocabulary: verbs inherited from Latin, which have a correspondent in Classic Latin, verbs inherited from non-attested Latin terms.

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