Re: IE & Uralic

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 51346
Date: 2008-01-17

Hebrew didn't/doesn't have a /dj/ sound --so maybe /k/
was compensatory


--- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001"
> <george_st@...> wrote:
> >
> > >Can't you see that -g- in moger is the best match
> for -dzh- in latin
> > >script?
> >
> > I don't know for what -g- stoodin those Latin
> chronicles. I'm no
> expert
> > in old Hungarian. But I can add that in some
> (sub-)dialects of modern
> > Hungarian, the pan-Hungarian <gy>, which stands
> for a
> palatalized /g/,
> > is rendered as a <dz^> /dZ/ (that warrants an
> English rendering
> > "Madjar").
>
> If I remember right there's a mention of m.k.ri
> (Mogeri?) by Eldad ha-
> Dani or in Sepher Yosippon. If that be true, where's
> the "dzh"?
>
>



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