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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'-,
by 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 agothat sounds like extreme stretch, any source for this or it's just your theory?
- kgeist 5y agoThere'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...