From: tgpedersen
Message: 59343
Date: 2008-06-20
>Vindobona, actually, another *Wenet- name.
> 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>.)
>Because? Orbis Latinus
> > 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->.