Re: [tied] Re: German vocalism

g wrote:

> The Hungarian Wikipedia also mentions the < Slavic [kluz^]
> (see spelling: kluzs) < (Middle High) German klus hypothesis:
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolozsv%C3%A1r
>
> BUT: it is also possible that this place name is reminiscent
> of the name of the 1st iSp�n (in German Gespan) of this
> "castrum": some guy called... Colus (in the medieval Latin
> of the Hungarian documents). Only a hypothesis.
>
> George

the Rom. name can be explained just from a word with an afrricata at the
end: cluc^> clush > cluj, thus Latin "clusum","colus",, German "klus" is
excluded. Unless the name of the city has been spoken with "z" (sonant
"s") in the German dialect there ( though "kluz"), the Slavic word
(kluc^) for "key" fits the best here

Alex




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