Re: The Origins of Zürich...

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:00:04 GMT, Heidi Graw
<hgraw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<o8imh.109587$rv4.45415@edtnps90">news:o8imh.109587$rv4.45415@edtnps90> in sci.lang:

[...]

Brian, I found out what richi means in OG and MG.

I'm perfectly well aware of OHG <rîhhi> and MHG <rîche>. I
know where they came from, and I'm familiar with their
cognates in other languages. I also know that they have
nothing to do with the name <Zürich>. I rather expected
that you would fall into that trap, however, and I have no
hope whatsoever of extricating you from it. That would
require at least minimal cooperation on your part, not to
mention something besides mindless ego between your ears.

It's reich...realm.

Of course.

Ziu-richi, Ziu's Realm.

No. Ignoring for a moment the fact that the name obviously
derives from Roman <Toricum>, the fact is that the OHG for
'Ziu's realm' would have been something like <Zies rihhi>,
*not* <Ziu-richi>.

A place where Ziu rules over the land. Ziurichi, Zürich.
It is a name dervived from the German Language Tree.

The statement is meaningless as it stands.

It is not related to the Celtic or Latin Languages.

On the contrary, it is a borrowing of a Latin rendering of
what was most likely a Celtic place-name.

You know, it bespeaks a truly remarkable stupidity on your
part that you fail to realize how pig-ignorant you are of
the things about which you insist on babbling even after you
encounter people who *do* know what they're talking about.
Why the hell do you bother to ask us questions? You
obviously have no interest in the answers unless they
support your asinine fantasies, and you *certainly* have no
interest in learning any of the linguistics and history that
would explain the answers. Indeed, so far as I can tell,
you don't understand the difference between a science (in
the sense of a connected body of knowledge) and a mishmash
of isolated tidbits of data. Hell, you don't even recognize
that there *is* a difference.

You probably can't be held accountable for your stupidity;
your wilful ignorance is another matter, however, as is the
groundless (and therefore offensive) arrogance with which
you 'correct' those who actually *do* have some
understanding of the subject. What strange mental
perversion allows you to think that an ignorant dolt like
you can 'correct' the fruits of real scholarship?
.

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