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Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 7:22
AM
Subject: RE: [tied] Russian for
Homerus
These are
<Gomér> and <Gonórij>. An initial <g-> is traditional (one
would expect <x-> in a present-day borrowing): a bulk of
foreign names containing [h] were adopted in the 18th c.,
when Russian intellectuals used to talk a local variant of Church
Slavonic to each other (except they were drunk, quarreling or
discussing everyday life), and Russian Church Slavonic orthoepy
ascribes a phonetic value of [G] ([fricative g]) or even [h] to what is
spelled <g>,(...)
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