'caron' (was: Re: Re: Two questions about Esperanto
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 8, 2004, 13:17 |
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Ray:
> the 'caron' (hacek, haczek) used in the writing of Czech
> & some other Slav langs - like an _inverted_ circumflex.
Where does this word 'caron' come from? I first encountered
it in the character set section of the manual of my first
computer (Amstrad PCW, I worked all the summer of 1987 to
buy it), but it's not in my copies of OED or Webster's
Unabridged, and I've never seen it in texts on typography
or writing systems (where hacek, which is in the dictionaries,
is used).
(I wondered if it might have a Livagian origin: _caron_
could be the stem of the Livagian word for the hacek, since
Livagian uses it over a, e, i, m, n, o, q, r, u, w, y. Either
<caron> is a respelling of Livagian <karon> or <gkharon>, or
it is a repronunciation of Livagian <caron> pronounced with
an initial dental click, 'tsk'.)
--And.
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