Cît din substratul lexical al limbii române e dacic? / How much of the lexical substratum of the Romanian language is Dacian?

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.