majority were the historically least developed and poorest areas (Bistrița-Năsăud, Hunedoara, Caraș-Severin) and, somewhat surprisingly, Arad, whose major urban center seems to have (recently) lost the development competition with Timișoara (Timiș) and Oradea (Bihor), its more...

pro-European middle class. in Timiș county this is very clear; the green areas in the middle represent Timișoara, the county center, and the adjoining peri-urban settlements, which have experienced spectacular levels of growth in the last decade or so. also green, the other two major urban...

28.68% in the first round as opposed to the 37.99% of his far-right opponent. impressive mobilization of pro-European voters led to a significant increase in voter turnout, which nullified (with a vengeance!) any advantage his opponent might have had after the first round. just compare the maps 👇

one particular reason for me to rejoice this morning, beyond the triumph of decency over thuggery in the presidential elections in #Romanian yesterday are the results in my home county, #Timiș, in #Banat: 58.37 % for the pro-European candidate, Nicușor Dan, a spectacular increase from just...

Alex, I found an explicit (normative) attestation of the maize & tobacco combination with a very interesting (and reasonable) justification for it.

the editor seems to have used both standard Latin abbreviations (om., add.) and English (either abbreviated or written in full) in their apparatus (see an example in the image below). such mixture is extremely strange and, needless to say, not something to be (re)commended.

the performers are called "piţărăi" after the name of the special, ritually prepared buns or cakes that used to be their reward for the performance. traditionally, they also receive a piece of smoked sausage, a few cobs of corn, walnuts, apples, sweets and, nowadays, money.

this is a ritual song that was once associated with a pre-Christian fertility rite and is now part of the Christianized "Christmas caroling." there's nothing specifically Christian about the text, though, as you can see from my English translation below.

...for this month include 'ningău' [niŋˈgəw] "snower," an internal creation from the verb '(a) ninge' < Lat. 'nīngere' + Romanian agentive suffix -ău extracted from Hungarian loanwords, and 'neios' [neˈjos] "snowy," derived in Romanian with the suffix -os from 'nea' "snow" < Lat. 'niue(m).'

December is the only month named after a saint in the traditional #Romanian calendar: 'îndreá' [ɨn'dre̯a] < Latin 'Andrea(s)' (cf. Albanian 'shënëndre' "St. Andrew " & "December"), whose feast (30 November) helps kick-start the last month of the year. alternative names...

a week from today, I will be in lovely #Bratislava to give an invited lecture on "Multilingual Elites and the Impact of Language Contact in 17th-century Transylvania" in the series "Reči o reči" organized by Peter Benka and Ivana Lukáč Labancová at the Department of Slovak...

that feeling when you've just pressed the 'send' button to send off an overdue article at the same time as you get an e-mail from the editor to remind you it is overdue. priceless! 🤓😃 #linguistics #dialectology #Romanian #Banat

so, this happened today. thank you to the organizers and especially to the amazing audience for a truly exhilarating Q & A session after my presentation! I'm still buzzing. 😃🤓

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9. Lat. 'spe(m)' > Rom. *'spie' /ˈspje/, which would have been survived as such in varieties that preserve palatals + /j/ or would have further changed to *'spă' /'spə/ in those varieties that depalatalize labials. and I guess that's all folks! 🤓😀

@bogdanmateescu.bsky.social 😉🤓

#Romanian traditional calendar calls the month beginning tomorrow 'Brumărél' [bru.mə'rel], a noun formed from 'Brumar' "November" with the diminutive suffix -el. both go back to 'brumă' "(hoar) frost," descendant of Lat. 'bruma' "winter (cold)." let's prepare for Frosty's little bro! ❄️ 🥶

just arrived here from that other site, so, greetings to all blueskyers! I'm looking forward to posting and reading about #linguistics, #dialectology, my native #Banat, and everything else that's good.