Segmentul fonetic inițial ‘pie-’ în pieptene și denumiri pentru pieptene, pe baza ALRR. Sinteză, vol. I

Abstract

This paper takes a look at the palatalization of initial p e- in pieptene ‘comb’ (noun) based on the answers synthetized in ALRR. Sinteză, vol. I. Twenty-three individual map headers are included in the phonetic map, based on respondents’ first answer given in the regional atlases, added by different variants given as second and/or third answers. While the collocation “palatalization of the labials” may not be the most accurate in describing the discussed phenomena (see cited works), it has been used by virtue of Romanian linguistic tradition. As far as names for the notion of pieptene ‘comb’ are concerned, the entire Daco-Romanian territory (today’s Romania and the Republic of Moldova, where regional atlases have been published) favours the inherited term pieptene, from the Latin accusative pectinem (Lat. pecten, pectinis) over words with different etymologies. Of course, the word pieptene (which is the literary form) shows a great deal of variation both phonologically, and morphologically (change of declension).