Re[2]: [Cz-L]IEU & history

In data de Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:34:49 +0200
"HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> scris-a:

> The name of Cz:
> 1.Czernowitz Habsburgs
> 2. Cernauti Rumanian -the "a" has a "breve " the" t "a cydil to sound
> "tz" the "i" is mute but is a softener to the "tz".
> It is a plural like all cities endind in an "i".
> 3. Chernovitzy First Soviet occupation -Russian - the "y" sounds like the
> rumanian "a" with a breve. Very similar to old german
> name.
> 4. Chernovtzy From 1944 new Russian name .
> The Russian names are also plurals.
> 5. Chernivtsi Ukrainean name current use.
>

Does anyone know the etymology of the name Czernowitz? I haven't found
one so far but I suspect the name comes from Russian (Czerno =
Tschiorney = black) and I don't know what is black there.

A somewhat related place name in Romania, Cernavoda on the Danube is
easily related to Tschiornaya Voda = Black water.

Daniel Dubowy

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