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

[Günther Böhm]

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