From: tgpedersen
Message: 61561
Date: 2008-11-12
>Yes. Also cf. Opitergium > Oderzo
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> --- On Tue, 11/11/08, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
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> > 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?