Re: Daci

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > BTW shouldn't it really be St. Pietersburg? Finns call it Pitari,
> and
> > I've heard that Russians call it Piter? St. Petersburg seems like

a

> > Germanification of something very sea-oriented? Catharina?
>
> The first official name of this 'St. Peter's city' was indeed
> something of Dutch flavour: it was {Piterburx} in the earliest
> Russian documents. Peter the Great was nearly fluent in both Dutch
> and German, but consistently prefered Dutch by some reasons
> (recollections of youth?).
>
> Sergei

I am too, and I do too. There is something strange about the Dutch
language; you begin with assuming it's just another German dialect,
and but the more you understand the stranger and weirder it gets.
It's like some lost unknown people in Europe. Maybe it's just the
Dutch mind, if such a thing exists.

Torsten