Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., "Rex H. McTyeire" <rexbo@...> wrote:

> Sergei says:
> Mare a Brailei" and (are you ready for the word?) "Balta a

Ialomitei" ("The

> Big Island of Brailei" {local city} and "The Intermittent Lakes of
> Ialomitei" {another town}) A balta essentially = a big mud

puddle after a

> rain, that takes too long to go away.

Romanian carefully preserved Proto-Slavic *bo'lto (<*ba'lta(m),
here ' for an old acute) 'marsh'.

> I have a printed English translation of a 12th Cent. German monk

refering to

> Romanians in Moldavia at war with "Ruthenian neighbors". That

narrows the

> Ruthenians in his reference to either Ukraine or Poland, and the

islands

> reinforce Ukraine.
>

Misunderstanding snowballs. Torsten insisted on the 1st half of the
first millenium AD. 12th century writing ABOUT 12TH CENTURY'S EVENTS
for sure used 'Ruthenian' (or what it were in the original) to
designate East Slavs, inhabitants of RusI. No Danes.

Sergei