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of the city, as suggested by Tassadit Yacine. Academic discussions often omit that the name that both Arabic- and Berber-speaking inhabitants have always given to their city is Dzayer. However, Dzayer raises the question of the origin of the affricate , which neither Arabic nor Berber possesses in its consonantal system. One might wonder if the sound , replacing , is a persistent trace of Berber. Since, as mentioned, the sound is found in the name of Zirids, some imagine that Dzayer is the result of the

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