2)the Slovenian word for FOUNDRY is not FUZINA: that’s a forge — where metal is hammered, e.g. wrought iron. Metal is cast in a LIVNICA or VLIVARNICA ‘foundry’. So Italian FUCINA/Venetian FUZINA is forge, not foundry. Foundry is FONDERIA, and not GETTO.

ADDENDA:
Italian settlements at a city’s edge, once poor and shabby, are termed by the Italian Post Office GHETTO (singular), but also CASE (plural of CASA ‘house’). An exact formal parallel to Italian BORGHETTO — diminutive of BORGO — is Yiddish SHTETL — diminutive of SHTOT ‘town, city’. In addition there are shtetls called “house/houses”, e.g. Polish CHYZA, Ukrainian KHYZHI.
Cecil Roth was both right and wrong. He was right when he advocated the etymology GHETTO from BORGHETTO. He was wrong when he switched to GHETTO as if cognate of Germanic word GATA, GATE (in Yorkshire a street, rather than the portal), German GASSE ‘back street, lane’, Yidddish GAS. Those are mere look look-alikes and unrelated. Compare Spanish MUCHO and English MUCH, earlier MYCEL… The Latter is from the same Indo-European source as Greek MEGA, Latin MAGNUS, Sanskrit MAHA… Spanish MUCHO is from Latin MULTUS.

31021 Ghetto di Mogliano Veneto TV(Treviso)
37060 Sorgà VR (Verona)
Ghetto, Pesaro PU (Peasro-Urbino)
Ghetto, Sorgà VR
Ghetto, Teolo PD (Padova)
Ghetto, Ro FE (Ferrara)
Ghetto, Berra FE
Ghetto, Monselice PD
Ghetto, Moglia MN (Mantova)
Ghetto, San Francesca al Campo TO (Torino)
Ghetto, Concordia sulla Secchia MO (Modena)

Just two stops by train from Venice there is a place called Ghetto di Mogliano Veneto. There is no Jewish connection. Old maps here marked “houses of the family Valonga.” A man of the Valonga family was given the nickname VALONGHETTO. The clipping of this long form is the source of the Mogliano place name. There are many other places in northeastern Italy called GHETTO that are not Jewish and had no foundries. See:
http://www.comune.mogliano-veneto.tv.it/aree_tematiche/citta/territorio/luoghi_nomi.html

“Foundry” in the Venetian dialect is fusina. It also shows up in Venetian Slovenia, as the toponym Stara Fuzhina ‘Old Forge”. – GHETTA “protoxide of lead” is from German (BLEI-GLAETTE ‘lead sheen’, used to pretty up cast iron work. – GHECTUS is a wannabe “Latin” form crafted on inverted analogy of Italian PERFETTO from PERFECTUS, Italian OTTO for OCTO etc… The C of GHECTUS is fake, like the S of ISLAND and the L of COULD.
The term for the Jewish quarter used in Pope Paul IV’s Bull Nimis absurdum (1555) is not GHECTUS, but VICUS IUDAICUS. One or more, according to population, streets were to be assigned. “The street” is the word all over Europe for ghetto.

Anatoly Liberman is perfectly right to point out that GETTO has an open E, while GHETTO has a close E. This not only makes impossible the derivation from “foundry”, but also corroborates the etymology GHETTO from BORGHETTO, which has its close E precisely because it is the clipping of BORGHETTO ‘little (slummy) street”. The diminutive/pejorative suffix -ETTO, like BORGO, is of Germanic origin. The minimal crummy little town is a road with houses alongside, just a street. BORGO and BORGHETTO in effect mean “the street’, a smelly dirty one, just the place to dump unloved outsiders, not always Jews. “Ghetto in MANY localities is the name for places where houses are little, poor and dirty.” (Prati 1951:486, translator jpm)

The reason for not mentioning Danish or Norwegian is that both have changed pronunciation and spelling, whereas Icelandic and Swedish have retained a much older form. Being that Anatoly knows about all of the Scandinavian “dialects,” mentioning Norwegian or Danish forms is taken for granted. The Danish form has voiced the -t- (to -d-), and the Norwegian form has schwa-ed the final -a to -e. Of course all of these (gata/gate/gade) come from what must have been an identical Old Norse word (gata), it is merely that Swedish and Icelandic have best preserved the spelling and pronunciation in this case (as many others).

- is there any reason for not mentioning Danish “gade” and Norwegian “gate” here, or is it just coincidence? I’m just curious – is there some argument that the word in question is not related to these, but to the Swedish and Icelandic?