Re: [OT] o-circumflex

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

>> It's as weird as some Italian names for German cities: Aquisgrana
>> for Aachen, Augusta for Augsburg, Magonza for Mainz, Monaco (di
>> Baviera) for M�nchen.

MK> Interesting that Polish names of these cities are more like Italian
MK> than German: Akwizgran, Augsburg, Moguncja, Monachium.

Because they're adaptations of the mediaeval Latin names.

The same is true of historically important Polish cities, by the way:
Varsovie, Cracovie in French, Varsavia, Cracovia in Italian.  English
uses the German names instead (Warsaw, Cracow).

                                        Juliusz