Talk:Bihor
Add topicLatest comment: 2 years ago by Bogdan in topic Etymology
Etymology
[edit]@Bogdan, do any of these theories merit a mention? Seems like Iorga had another theory and so did Crișan (although he wasn't a linguist). I'm especially interested about your thoughts on the *buăr theory. --Robbie SWE (talk) 10:49, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
- Not really.
- * biela hora is very unlikely as the local Slavic dialects (Old Slavonic and Serbian) would have had gora for mountain. Also, there's no explanation for the missing "l". Romanian and Hungarian do remove clusters of consonants from Slavic words that are hard to pronounce (like "хвр" to "vr" or even "r"), but this is not the case.
- * there is no known process to turn bour into Bihor, even using a Slavic intermediary.
- * calling it a Thracian, Dacian, Illyrian or Iranian word is just speculation, without any basis in reality.
- Most likely the Romanian word is not directly from Slavic, but via Old Hungarian, as Old Hungarian did not have /v/ (for instance, város was pronounced /waːroʃ/, hence Romanian oraș), so the initial "v" was adapted as "b". Bogdan (talk) 11:39, 21 February 2022 (UTC)