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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
> Am 27.04.2011 21:10, schrieb Torsten:
> >
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "t0lgsoo1" <guestuser.0x9357@> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Are those places in -eÅti known earlier under other names in
> > > >sources in other languages or are they new settlements?
> > >
> > > Mostly or always new ones.
> >
> > Odd. So you're saying there was a settlement boom in Transylvania
> > in the 16th-17th centuries?
>
> here is the problem of missing documents:-)) Just as additional
> information, the city of Bucureshti was mentioned on 1459, the city
> of Ploieshti has been mentioned on 1503 under the name "Plorescht"
Aha.
How about NWBlock (Venetic?) Plore + -eÅti?
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/59582
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/65695
ie. *plaN- + -eÅti, "people of the plain"?
assuming an old -r/-n heteroclitic
(note that Albanian has a Tosk / Geg shibboleth -n-/-r-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheg_Albanian
note the entry from "name")
*plar#/plan- ->
*plor#/plon-
and
dialectal regularization of either -r- or -n-, thus
*plor#/plor- or
*ploN#/plon- -> *ploI#/plon-
resulting in
*plor- + -eÅti -> PloreÅti and
*ploI- + -eÅti -> PloieÅti
The Romanian Wikipedia (but peculiarly not the English one) claims continuity for the city back to Thracian / Geto-Dacian times.
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istoria_Ploie%C8%99tiului
Torsten