Re: V-, B-

--- On Tue, 11/11/08, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

> From: dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: V-, B-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 5:55 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. I retract the claim that
> Slavic
> borrowed this word from Venetic, which clearly is
> unnecessary.
>
> DGK

But to clarify, Trieste was Tergeste in classic times, right?