Re: Kremlin


Poul Erik Jørgensen wrote:
> The Kremlin in Moscow is well known.
>
> In Russian it is called Kreml'.
>
> In many Western and Southern European languages we have forms with a -lin- :
> English: the Kremlin
> French: le Kremlin
> Spanish: el Kremlin
> Portoguese: o Kremlin
> Italian: il Kremlino
> Dutch: het Kremlin
>
> But
> German: der Kreml
> Danish, Swedish and Norwegian: Kreml (no article)
>
> In a Danish news group we have been searching for an etymological
> explanation of forms like Kremlin - but we have found no acceptable
> solution.
> Can you help us?
>
> Poul Erik Jørgensen
> DK
> --
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> Enlevez NNN de mon adresse électronique pour me répondre.

Euphony reasons perhaps? In English one could insert a schwa between
'm' and 'l', but in Latin languages 'Kreml' would be just impossible
to pronounce.

Gerson.

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