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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2004-12-12 10:00 pm
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that's not my fucking name!

[livejournal.com profile] alfvaen mentioned Czechia and commented:

I don't even know the origin of the spelling "Czech", since Czech itself doesn't seem to spell it that way--it looks more Polish, perhaps.
Of course, the Czechs call it "Česká Republika", but calling them "Ceska" (say Cheska) seems to be out of the question.  Same for India, which the locals call Bharat.  And where did Japan come from, when they call themselves Nippon?  How did Cymru turn into Wales?  These are the things that make my brain itch.

FWIW

[identity profile] vardissakheli.livejournal.com 2004-12-13 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
over on the other side of the Black Sea, in Georgian, "v" undergoes pretty drastic phonetic processes in connection with both "r" and "o." A hypothetical (and probably nonexistent) prefix and preradical vowel "rv-a-" could conceivably become "-vro-a-" in combined forms.