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Mind explaining what has "cizinec" with all of this? Btw. most of the Slavs are in for big surprise where comes English word "slave" from.

• kgeist 5y ago
  The sound change in Czech was something like the following: 1) teud- => t'ud'-, i.e. the diphong -eu- changed to -u- and palatalized -t- 2) t'ud'- => c'üdz'-, another round of palatalization, similar to how Latin -tio came to be pronounced as -tsio (Polish still has "cudzy") 3) c'üdz' => ci(d)z- , sound change ü => i is quite common across languages, for example Greek -y- => -i- As for the meaning, the Proto-Slavic word first meant "(foreign) people" => Czech "foreigner", Russian "stranger"
  • Markoff 5y ago
    that sounds like extreme stretch, any source for this or it's just your theory?
    • kgeist 5y ago
      There's an academic field called historical linguistics, with a subfield called Slavistics. It's a solid scientific theory which is based on historical data and typology. I may have gotten some details wrong, but it's generally how the sound changes occured according to mainstream academia. This page has some references at the bottom: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/%C5%A5u%C4%8F%D1%8C https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...