On 06/07/2004 20:47, Raymond Mercier wrote:
Gerd Schumacher wrote
> I think, the underying meaning of Istimboli must be
> "town at the isthmus", which makes sense, indeed.
How does that work ? Do you mean
istim<ÎÏÎÎÎÏ , bol<ÏÎÎÎÏ ?
Raymond Mercier
This is more complicated than it looks. The Greek form Istimboli is impossible for the period as Greek had no [b] sound, for Î was pronounced [v] except that later and perhaps already at that period ÎÏ was pronounced [b] at least in foreign words. So is the Greek consonant cluster ÎÎ, or ÎÏ, or ÎÎÏ, or what? Also is the previous consonant cluster ÏÏ as transliterated, or ÏÎ corresponding to "isthmus"? And then what are the Greek vowels?
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