[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 35, Issue 24

[Gary Warner]

Guenther,

I do not speak Polish or Russian or Ukrainian, so 
I suppose that the information given to me can be 
incorrect.   All I was reporting is what my 
Polish friend (who also speaks Russian) told me, 
and also what has occurred in my own family.   If 
the ski and sky riddle is not answered as I have 
indicated, then why do some names end in ski, and some in sky?

Gary Warner

At 01:03 PM 04/21/06, Günther Böhm wrote:
>Gary Warner schrieb:
>
> >I just asked a Polish friend who speaks both Polish and Russian, and
> >who is also part Ukrainian.   She says that the sound of ski and sky
> >is identical, but she says it has to do with the Cyrillic alphabet
> >that the letter is a y instead of an i.   She says that typically a
> >person with an ski name is Polish (or at least their name was formed
> >in Poland), and that sky is usually a Russian or Ukrainian name (or
> >at least their name was formed in Russia or the Ukraine).    I
> >suppose that a German living in both Poland and Volhynia might have a
> >Polonized name that ended in ski, and when they moved to Volhynia
> >that it might have changed to sky.
> >
>
>Gary,
>sorry, but this is definitely wrong. In Russian and Ukrainian there is
>never a "y" [in Russian "iery"] after a "k". It is written instead as "i
>- i kratkoye" and transcribed in Latin characters as "ij". If you want,
>I can send you the original cyrillian writing in a private mail (as I
>suppose, the ger-poland-volhynia list is still not able to transmit
>Unicode [UTF-8]).
>
>Guenther
>
>
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