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Is it correct to count Zittau as a part of the sudetes? It seems wrong to me.


The pronunciation guide looks ugly. And I said that having being the maker of that look 2 months ago. Should we just remove it? --Menchi 11:55 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I've converted to IPA, which I think looks less ugly. But how do you pronounce Sudetes (a form 'v enot come across before - I've always thought of it as the Sudeten mountains? rossb 19:27, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be (at least in Czech) [sudεtI]? I do not think Czech has [e]. --Jirka6 04:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to move to Sudeten

Have never heard of the Sudetes, and looking at the internet it seems to be primarily a term in scientific use. In general English Sudeten mountains is a much more recognisable term, used by the Polish and Czech tourist boards among others.--Stonemad GB 15:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sudetes and Sudetayle

On the Sudetes, I never heard of it. But, it appears everywhere in the Internet, including Columbia Encyclopedia. Mostly you get the Wikipedia material repeated dozens of times. Finally, I found a French site and realized with a shock that there is a grave accent over the first e, which makes it French. So, I put that in.

Perhaps the French explains the inscrutable Sudetayle, which as far as I can search out (and I have a printed text), does not appear in Ptolemy. In fact there is only one reference in Ptolemy, so I took the liberty of putting it in.

As far as the etymology is concerned, it looks pretty dubious, but it might be. The *seu- root (swine) is obviously meant, but where the wild and the mountains come from remains blank to me. Anyone care to elucidate? If you look up boar, you never find *seu- to mean that. *seu- has more to do with reproduction. I'd say, keep trying, but I'm not going to tamper with it.Botteville 15:59, 12 August 2005 (UTC)