On 2008-11-07 22:38, dgkilday57 wrote:
> Both of these are native Venetic formations based on
> *terg- 'marketplace', which has been borrowed into South Slavic
> (Serbian <trg> 'town square').
But *tUrgU 'market, market square', whatever its origin, is common
Slavic (ORu. tUrgU, Russ./Ukr. torg, Pol. targ, Czech trh, etc.) or even
Balto-Slavic (Lith. tur~gus, Latv. ti`rgus) and was borrowed into East
Scandinavian (Sw. torg, Dan. torv) and Finnish (turku). I'm not saying
it can't be a wanderwort of Venetic origin, but there's nothing
specifically South Slavic about it.
Piotr