On 2008-11-13 20:10, george knysh wrote:
> ****GK: Sure. But the hramota Rozov mentions is not a copy but the 1349
> original. I wonder how long the new pronunciation was "around" before it
> began to creep into official documents.****
Interesting. Babik doesn't mention it under his entry for Sanok --
clearly an oversight. The Hypatian Codex mentions the Hungarian
occupation of <SanokU gorodU> (the town of Sanok, of course, not the San
tributary) under AD 1150:
http://litopys.org.ua/ipatlet/ipat17.htm
I don't think it was a West/East Slavic shibboleth; otherwise the Old
Ukrainian annals would not have used the <a> spelling in the first
place, but I agree that a "folk" pronunciation may have been in use for
some time before making it into written documents. <Sanok>, by the way,
is an interesting name -- certainly a diminutive, but with *-o-k-,
preserving the thematic vowel, not the usual Slavic *-Uk-, i.e. a very
archaic type of diminutive formation.
Piotr