RE: Names of places in Croatia
March 31, 2023 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2023 at 12:33 pm by FlatAssembler.
Edit Reason: Explained what is rare...
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(March 31, 2023 at 9:39 am)polymath257 Wrote:(March 30, 2023 at 10:14 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Of course, whether or not Illyrian is a centum language is not the main topic of that paper. The main topic is the idea that the Croatian river names that start with k-r are etymologically related.
And, what, three people in the world are interested and one of them says this is BS?
Well, my perception is that quite a few people are interested in the names of places. Almost every monography of some place starts with a (often obviously wrong) speculation about what the name of that place means.
What is rare, though, are people attempting to study that topic systematically.