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The Caesarea area in Israel is pronounced with the hard C in Hebrew. I wonder if that Latin influence or an artefact of Hebrew itself.
by ycombinete 3y ago
The Caesarea area in Israel is pronounced with the hard C in Hebrew. I wonder if that Latin influence or an artefact of Hebrew itself.
- nivertech 3y agoIt's not just the name of the city קיסריה [Keisariya], but also the title of the imperor - "Caesar" - קֵיסָר [keisar].
- rolleiflex 3y agoTurkish also retains the hard C in some forms, the city of Kayseri in Asia Minor is also from Caesarea. However some of that has been eradicated by the more recent influence of French. An example of that is Julius Caesar, which is Jül Sezar.
- bodhiandphysics 3y agoModern hebrew gets the name from the Mishnaic hebrew name for the city. It's also spelled with a unvoiced glottal in arabic. Note that Israel was in the hellenistic part of the empire, and caesarea was very much a greek speaking city, where there wasn't palatalization of latin c (which was rendered as a kappa). Note russian Czar.
- pravus 3y agoMy understanding is that both would have been derived from Phoenician which was itself from a Proto-Indo-European origin.
- bodhiandphysics 3y agoNo... first hebrew is basically just a dialect of Phoenician, and phoenecian isn't an indo european language! It's semitic, like arabic and Akkadian. Also the name Casesarea is of course from Caesar (the city was founded in honor of Augustus by Herod)