Re: Carthage?

Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>> Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>>
>>> ** Latin _Carthaginienses_ referred either to the inhabitants of
>>> _Nouua
>>> Carthago_ (New Carthage) in Spain
>
>
>> Shouldn't that be "Noua Carthago" with only one 'u'?
>> Also, is it known what the 'th' is doing in _Carthago_? An aspirate? A
>> cluster?
>>                                                  Andreas
>
>
> I don't know how the Romans pronounced it, but it seems to have
> originally been a cluster, something like */k>art X\adaSt/ "new city",
> cognate to Hebrew /k>eret X\adaSa/.
It doesn't matter how the Romans pronounced it, since they
adopted the Greek adaptation.  Fot the ancient Greeks it
must have been entirely natural to render Phoenician
[tX\] as their /t_h/.

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