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Re: Odainsakur

Subject: Re: Odainsakur
From: "Dusan Vukotic" <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 31 Dec 2006 08:32:20 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Poul Erik Jørgensen wrote:

> "Heidi Graw" <hgraw@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
> DELlh.101556$YV4.13178@edtnps89">news:DELlh.101556$YV4.13178@edtnps89
> >> Poul wrote:
> >> TYR: what language is that? Celtic?
> >> Why not TUR?
> >
> > I'm thinking Zurich may have derived from the German Ziu...Ziu
> > corresponding with Tyr...one of the Germanic Gods.  There is also
> > obscure evidence that Ziu (Tyr) was married to the Goddess Zisa.
>
> Why don't the Swiss just say Züich (from ziu ach)? Where does the -r- come
> from?
>
> --
> Poul Erik Jørgensen
>
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Whay not from <zurück>? :-)

DV


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