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Re: USAGE: East Slavic historical phonology (was: Questions and Impressions of Basque)

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 17:34
--- "Isaac A. Penzev" <isaacp@...> wrote:

> > In this case (as in some others) _-pol_ originates > from _pole_ 'field'. And > according to a dead phonetic law it produced _-pil_ > in Mn Ukrainian. The > same is true about _Ternopil'_ and _Myropil'_. By > analogy some people > pronounce _Symferopol'_ as *[sImfe"4Op;il;], but > this is 100% wrong - it's > indeed from Greek _polis_. >
Oh ? Eto ja ne znal. Thought all names ending with -pol were of same origin. I didn't wonder about Simferopol, but I thought Sebastopol is still pronounced Sebastopol because it's more a Russian town than an Ukrainian one (don't hit me !) I also found it very striking that some places in Krym kept their Greek names without any notable change (Evpatorija, Xerson, probably Feodosija too ?). How old are these names ? And on the other side, you have many Tatar names too (Baxchysaraj, Gurzuf...). As to Inkerman, I guess it was somebody's name ? Krym is really an interesting place for toponyms. ===== Philippe Caquant "High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail