Is the Romanian language closer to Italian or Czech

[Dacul]

To be gross,see how is called in romanian language the female sexual organ:
pizda.
This is cognate with all slavic languages.
What you want to say that the romanian people borrowed this word from slavic?
Lol.
Why they would do this?
How about zapada,romanian language is the only european language that maintains this word from proto-slavic,to call snow,all slavic languages are using a word borrowed from germanic in different forms.
What do you want to tell,that old dacians did not knew how to call snow till slavs "came"?
How about a iubi and iubire,obvious cognate with ljuba ?
Or how about vedea ,obvious cognate with slavic languages?
You want to say old dacians did not had a word for to see?
Were lots of basic words in old romanian language that were cognates with slavic.
The absurdity of the people who are saying that romanians did not fought slavic invaders cause they were weak has no limits.
If they were weak,how come south romanians allied with bulgarians gave big headaches to Byzatine Empire?
That Empire was one of the most strongest military forces in Europe that time,if not strongest.
And finally a word to shake latinists,iezer,this is how lake was called in old romanian.
The name of the lakes from Carpathians mountains are still maintained as "Iezeru etc".
This words are from old dacian language,so think again before you are sustaining such nonsenses.

[Virtuous]

Romanian is somewhat Latin sounding, too.

[RussiaPrussia]

Let's take an interesting word: draga.
Which slavic countries use this word to mean dear, darling?

sounds like friend in russian drug

[inactive_member]

How about zapada,romanian language is the only european language that maintains this word from proto-slavic,to call snow,all slavic languages are using a word borrowed from germanic in different forms.

A similar word for snow is used in all Baltic languages. Lithuanian – sniegas, Latvians - sniegs. Old Prussian (Baltic language) – snaygis.

Zapada sounds Slavic to my ears which probably formed from a word "fall" or "to fall” . The word 'zapada' could had been used by a group of Slavic people speaking a dialect living close to ancestors of Romanians.

I checked two dictionaries of etymology both stating 'sneg' is an old slavic word. I would like read the source on the origin of the word "zapada" being a proto-Slavic for snow, as it's difficult to imagine a vast group of people using the variants of the same word borrowed from German.

PS Romanian sound more Italian than Czech to me.

[Dacul]

A similar word for snow is used in all Baltic languages. Lithuanian – sniegas, Latvians - sniegs. Old Prussian (Baltic language) – snaygis.

Zapada sounds Slavic to my ears which probably formed from a word "fall" or "to fall” . The word 'zapada' could had been used by a group of Slavic people speaking a dialect living close to ancestors of Romanians.

I checked two dictionaries of etymology both stating 'sneg' is an old slavic word. I would like read the source on the origin of the word "zapada" being a proto-Slavic for snow, as it's difficult to imagine a vast group of people using the variants of the same word borrowed from German.

PS Romanian sound more Italian than Czech to me.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zapadati
Is from old slavonic language.
It also means to fall snow.

[inactive_member]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zapadati
Is from old slavonic language.
It also means to fall snow.

I see. But old Slavonic and proto-Slavic are not the same languages.

The source, wiktionary, does not state 'zapadati' or 'zapada' meant 'snow' in proto-Slavic language. I checked the popular Vasmer dictionary of etymology and the dictionary of A. Semenov.

I am more inclined to think 'Zapada' (related to the word 'fall') was used in a dialect.

[alfieb]

There was a Romanian poster on ABF, I forget his name, but he was banned some time ago.

We had many discussions on our (Sicilianu/Romana) languages, and I understood his pretty well, but he understood mine even better. Neither of us could understand certain other Latin languages, but mutual intelligibility was surprisingly good, considering lack of shared ancestry and governance.

Other than the Slavic words, obviously, I feel like I can understand Romanian easier than Portuguese or French. So, while I know nothing of Czech, I voted for Italian.

[Corvus]

The vote is unambiguously. I always thought Romanian is very similar to Czech
also because of the Vlach connection but perhaps this was a misconception

[morski]

Let's take an interesting word: draga.
Which slavic countries use this word to mean dear, darling?

Bulgarian for example, драга моя.

[Daos]

The answer is obvious: Italian. I can actually understand what the narrator in the Italian video is talking about, but I can only catch a few words in the Czech video.

But, as mentioned, the Czech language is a strange choice, the Romanian language being closer to Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian.