CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 14, 2004, 5:03 |
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On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 06:26 , John Cowan wrote:
[snip]
> Still later, s- became perfectly fine: there is no synchronic evidence for
> prefixing in French today -- as opposed to Spanish and Turkish, where it
> is
> very much alive (though it's i- in Turkish, as in I-stanbul < Stambul <
> [Kon]stantinopoul[os]).
Non, no - 'Stambul' is from northern Greek [stm='bul] = standard modern
Greek [stim'boli]/stin poli/ = in the City/to the City.
The Byzantine Greeks, I believe, habitually referred to the capital simply
as "the City".
Ray
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