Toledo

[llama_nom]

Your previous message with the Arabic characters displayed alright on
my computer after I went to the VIEW menu, selected CHARACTER ENCODING
and UNICODE UTF-8.  Interesting idea.  I'm afraid I know far to little
about the history of the name to judge.  I wonder if there's any
evidence of such a diminutive form being used in Latin.  If you're
right though, this might conflict with Richard d'Alquen's hypothesis
that phonemic /e/ and /o/ were a distinctly Ostrogothic feature, but
remained allophones of /i/ and /u/ in Visigothic.  Is it normal in
loanwords from Latin into Arabic for Latin /o/ to be represented in
this way, by making a neighboring consonant emphatic?  Are there other
examples?

LN


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Abdoer-Ragmaan Lombard"
<manielombard at ...> wrote:
>
> Perhaps I've used an unsuitable font, so here a repost:
> 
> Could Tulaytula, the Arabic form of Toledo, have 
> been derived  from *Tôlêtula", a Gothic hypocorism of *Tôlêtô < Latin 
> Tôlêtum? Perhaps *Taúlêtô should be regarded as the Gothic etymon 
> (long unstressed "ô" having merged in Vulgar Latin with short /o/, and 
> seeing that Arabic uses a short "u" preceded by an emphatic t, in 
> order to reproduce an "o"; long "ê" is given as "ay" [= "ê" in spoken 
> Arabic]), which would give *Taúlêtula.
>


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