Re: [tied] Re: Celery

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From: "George" <gs001ns@...>
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Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 9:14 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Celery


>
> >How is [ts] perceived by people who have [s] and [dz], but
not [ts]?
> >I suspect as [s]
>
> As by Turks. Speaking German as newbies, they say, e.g.,
"swei"
> /svai/ instead of "zwei" /tsvai/ (two).

[Moeller]
you have funny turkisch people there where you live , George.
I have some turkish people , they work in the depot of my
company and I hear them too. Unfortunately I dont hear them
saying "svai" but I do hear them saying "zvei" where "z" in
their pronounciation is "dz" or rom. "z", but something
milder, not so strong as rom. "z".

>
> >Just to confuse matters, on-line Pokorny gives a Thracian
name
> >as Diuzenus (Roman alphabet) [...] Diogenes, a compound of
Zeus.

> Or... unless it's an... exception. :) (Any rule could have
exceptions.
> How about these? Decebalus/Decibalus, Decenaeus. Why weren't
they
> Deseb-/Dezeb-, Desen-/Dezen-, Dizeb-/Dizen-?)

[Moeller]
about Decebal : at Petrus patricius we find the form
"dexebalos o daxos" where "x" is the "h" from slavic
"vloxi"...
about deceneus: severalm formes: dicineus, dicineum, deceneus,
and at Issidor from Sevilla , Dikineos.


>
> BTW, di- > z, as in Derna > Dierna > Zern- (Tsern-) as well
as
> Sabadios > Sabaz-, belongs to changes that are late, i.e.
seen in the
> historical epoch. (again apud Russu, cf. supra)
>
> >Richard.
>
[Moeller] if thracian "de/di"> rom. ze/zi, then the phenomenom
was already closed as the romans camme to Balcans. No wonder
then, that the latin "de/di" did not went "ze/zi" anymore in
romanian.The fact is explained due the just 2-3 examples of
latin words where latin de/di is supposed to change in "ze/zi§
in the actual romanian language .The impresionantely list of
words with "z" and specialy groups "ze/zi" in romanian which
are beside some "slavic" word, overproportional , words with
unknown. etymology, speaks for itself.