pronunciation of a Latvian(?) name (summary)
Junichi Miyazawa
walkingtune at bigfoot.com
Wed Jun 3 15:59:42 UTC 1998
Dear colleagues:
Thank you very much for many off-list replies for
the pronunciation of "Krastins".
Let me say thank-you *on-list* here.
(Forgive me for not writing back to you off-list.)
Summary:
The answers are almost unanimous.
Krastins is a Latvian name
and it is pronounced like /krastinysh/ or /krastin'sh/
with the stress on the first syllable.
I hear the meaning is "of sea shore".
The street name "Zutenu" is /zhutenu/ with
the stress on the first syllable.
Someone told me it looks like a genitive plural
or a genitive singular.
Regards,
Junichi, Waseda/Hosei/Keio, Tokyo
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