Re: 'caron' (was: Re: Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Couldn't find anything about its origin, but noticed
that there exists also "macron" (a long horizontal
stroke upon a vowel). So let's bet:
- Greek origin ? I believe that if I was Greek, I
would handle very nicely about carons and macrons in
my everyday life.
- English origin ? (some 'on' suffix) ?
- Indo-European, same root as "crown" (krone, etc.) ?

Anyway, what does 'hacek' mean ? OK, it means caron,
but I mean, etymologically ?

--- And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote:
> 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.
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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