--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:35 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: IRMIN
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> [Torsten:] Artificially Latinized from what? What were they
trying to derive it from? As I see it the <þu:r> reference became
taboo (cf. the respective pronunciations of Sáddam vs Saddám in news
during the Gulf war), just as in High German the day of Woden became
mid-week instead. Missionaries and clergy would have pronounced
<þu:r> as if it were a suffix, hence <-Dur>.
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> Artificially Latinised from the traditional Latin spelling
<Thuringia>, kept alive by the literary tradition, going back to the
time when the name had initial <þ->. A voiced sound "as if in a
suffix" would have been devoiced into German /t/, as in <tür> <
*duriz in a word-initial position.
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> Piotr
Are there any other examples of that (you might claim it happened in
<teutsch>, of course, which BTW is a good candidate for <c^udi>).
/D/ (edh) develops into /d/ in German.
Torsten