Etymology of Prague?

[Marc L. Greenberg]

Paul,
I propose that we move the discussion off the list, as we are moving into
arcanities, possibly resting on communicative misunderstandings, and we
are bound to be castigated--justifiably so--by SEELANGS subscribers
for wasting bandwidth.
Am I correct in understanding that you propose that Cz Praha would
have been borrowed through a Germanic intermediary? ("...if Slavic
borrowed it at a later stage after the Germanic consonant shift...") I don't
think this is what Paliga was suggesting, nor would I propose such a
thing. And since we don't know anything about how the "Old European"
initial consonant was pronounced, we can only surmise that it eventually
came to be pronounced as *p- by the time the Slavs heard it (from
Celts?).
Marc

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