[gothic-l] Jassarfjoll

[Bertil Häggman]

Francisc,

Thankyou for the very interesting info
underneath. Didn't know that.

Gothically

Bertil

> The J in Jasi < Asi ("Alans") is due to the Slavic intermediate.
> In Old Slavic, many words beginning with a-, both herited from
> Indo-European or borrowed, get an initial j- (= semivocalic i).
> In Slavic languages, the Alans are called Jas, whence in Hungarian
> Jasz "Alan" and in Romanian Iasi = the name of a city, lit. "Alans"
> (the name of this city, situated in eastern Romania, is in Slavonic
> Jasisku torgu "Alanic town", and in Hungarian Jaszvaros "Alan town").



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