Re: V-, B-

At 3:09:25 PM on Thursday, June 19, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> 1)
> What's the deal with B- for V- in Slavic (and neighbors')
> names for
> http://tinyurl.com/4ogsjh

[...]

> Vienna:
> Bec^ (Bosnian,Croatian, Serbian)
> Bech (Romani)
> Bécs (Hungarian)

These, unlike Cz. <Víden^>, clearly aren't the same name as
<Wien>, so this isn't a case of <B-> for <V->. (<Wien>,
<Wenia> 881, and <Víden^> appreantly go back to a Celt.
<Vedunia>.)

> Villach (Carinthia, S. Austria):
> Be^lák (Czech)
> Beljak (Slovene)
> Bilachium (Latin)

Here I suspect that it's the other way around, and that
German has <V-> for <B->.

Brian