From: alex
Message: 24590
Date: 2003-07-16
>> -----Original Message-----Rom. "unghi" (angle) is given as deriving from Latin "angulus" with the
>> From: Vassil Karloukovski [mailto:v.karloukovski@...]
>
>> And if I may ask you
>> about the Slavic etymology of the Bulgar territory/refuge
>> on the Danube, somewhere between northern Dobrudzha and
>> southern Bessarabia. In the Greek chrnicles it was given as
>> Onglos (Ogglos) and interpreted as Slavic Ong&l (angle,
>> corner), consistent with the modern (Turkic) name for
>> southern Bessarabia - Budzhak. Is this OK?
>>
>
> I see no problem with Slavic *o,gUlU having been rendered as Greek
> <ogglos> (it should reflect a language's state after ca. 800 but
> before ca. 1000: *a had turned *o, the yers had nearly fallen, the
> nasals hadn't been denasalized yet), but I can't guarantee that the
> etymology is true: it takes too many factors to evaluate (eg., do
> other undisputably Slavic toponyms of the same etymology exist? etc).
>
> Sergei