Re: [tied] Horses

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From: Marc Verhaegen

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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:09 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Horses

:-)    Piotr, is this rzh [in Przhevalskij] something like the r (+ accent circonflexe upside down) in Czech Dvorak?    --Marc

 

 

 

Etymologically Polish rz = Czech r^, but in Polish the rolled pronunciation gave way to a pure fricative (postalveolar "sh" or "zh", depending on the environment) in the 17th century.

 

In Cyrillic script Przewalski's name is rendered as P-R-ZH-E-... in an attempt to transcribe the Polish stop+fricative cluster "p-sh" in a way consistent with the etymology of the name.

 

Piotr