Re: [tied] Re: -ow

--- Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > Does the German pronunciation of former Slavic
> placenames within
> > Germany in -ow as /o:/ (but 'real' Slavic names as
> '-off') indicate
> > that at the first time of contact, Slavic /v/ was
> still /w/ ('-ow' -
> > > 'o:')?
>
> That would have been in the Slavic dialects that the
> Germans
> contacted, such as the language of the Obotrites. In
> the Slavic
> dialect of south Bulgaria, which St.Cyril contacted
> and invented the
> Cyrillic alphabet for, /v/ was definitely /v/, since
> he spelt it with
> Greek beta.

*****GK: Final -v is still frequently pronounced as a
"w" in Ukrainian (and probably in many other Slavic
languages?). Thus "Khrushchov" spelled with the "v" is
actually pronounced "Khrushchow" , "Petrov" as
"Petrow", almost as a diphthong.*******




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