Re: The Origins of Zürich...


Heidi Graw kirjoitti:


Explain to me how one gets from Toricum to Ziurichi.

Elementary: zweite Lautverschiebung plus i-Umlaut. I am no historical
linguist, but this belongs really to the elementary course of German
historical linguistics - the one everybody takes.

The -um in the end is only required by Latin, the relevant part is
Toric-.

The change from T to Z [ts] is regular in southern German (Zeit cf.
English tide, Swedish tid; Zoll < medieval Latin toloneum).

The change from ou to iu before historical long i is regular too.

We end up with a pre-Zweite Lautverschiebung, pre-i-Umlaut form
*tourik-, which is similar enough to Toricum. (Latin cannot represent
diphthongs, of course).

This is what is possible to say only on the basis of first-year German
- being more interested in literature, I never actually learnt more
historical linguistics than the basics. I know it is flawed, but it is
certainly nearer to the received scholarly truth than your ideas.

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