Re: Deserts on the fringe?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:52:24 -0000, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/33467
> >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/33527
> >What's the deal with Slavic pustynia "desert"?
> >Why does it have the same rare suffix?
>
> What's your source for "the ending of Dutch 'woestijn'
> "desert" is < *-unya"?

I don't recall anymore. The same source that pointed out the
rareness of the suffix of Hercynia and fergunna, most likely. It
looks like it might be Kuhn, I'll check it whent I get back to my
own PC.


Torsten