Reconstruction talk:Latin/fraxinetum

First attestation

@Nicodene When is this first attested (in Medieval Latin or Romance)? Kwékwlos (talk) 12:15, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

@Kwékwlos I have turned up an example of fraxinetum that apparently dates to the year 724. That is early enough for our standards, so I will move this entry to the mainspace. Nicodene (talk) 17:50, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

I assume it is dated to Proto-Romance, but at the time of its attestation Romance would have diverged enough (at least for languages like Proto-Gallo-Romance or Proto-Ibero-Romance to have existed separately from Proto-Italo-Romance or Proto-Balkan Romance.) Kwékwlos (talk) 18:15, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

@Kwékwlos It certainly existed much earlier than 724. We know that the Romans of the Balkan interior were split off from the rest due to Slavic migrations by circa 620. And I think it unlikely that the Romanian and Aromanian words reflect independent innovations. Nicodene (talk) 18:23, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Are there any attested (Late or Medieval) Latin words inherited only in the Balkan Romance languages? Kwékwlos (talk) 18:28, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

None that I remember off the top of my head, at least. Nicodene (talk) 18:38, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Oops. Kwékwlos (talk) 21:07, 27 March 2023 (UTC)