Re: Country names
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 15, 2003, 18:04 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> Anyone here know Greek? Was there a systematic alternation
> between "tessares" and "tettares", or was it random, or
> are they from different dialects, or what?
ss <> tt is a dialectal alternation, AFAIK. I think it was ss
in Attic/Ionic but tt further north, as in the northern name
"Thettalos" meaning "man from Thessaly".
I may have this backwards or downright wrong.
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