Re: CHAT: weird names, was Re: conlanging,the ultimate feminist subversion

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> Protethic i where other Romance has e (before sp, st). Same reason,
> independent development.
ObConlang: Brithenig has prosthetic "y", pronounced /i/.  Turkish,
which isn't Romance but has the same rules, uses "i" also, as in
Istanbul < Stambul < (Con)stantinopol(itum).  (The theory that
"Istanbul" is from "eis tan polein" (to the city) has no basis.)

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