Re: V-, B-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> On 2008-11-07 22:38, dgkilday57 wrote:
>
> > Both of these are native Venetic formations based on
> > *terg- 'marketplace', which has been borrowed into South Slavic
> > (Serbian <trg> 'town square').
>
> But *tUrgU 'market, market square', whatever its origin, is common
> Slavic (ORu. tUrgU, Russ./Ukr. torg, Pol. targ, Czech trh, etc.)

or even

> Balto-Slavic (Lith. tur~gus, Latv. ti`rgus) and was borrowed into

East

> Scandinavian (Sw. torg, Dan. torv) and Finnish (turku). I'm not

saying

> it can't be a wanderwort of Venetic origin, but there's nothing
> specifically South Slavic about it.

Thanks for pointing this out. I retract the claim that Slavic
borrowed this word from Venetic, which clearly is unnecessary.

DGK