--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> This looks rather suspect. To be sure, the modern Slavic name for
the mountains, Karpaty, cannot be very old; it was borrowed after
liquid metathesis and the change of short *a into *o, most likely
about the 8th century. But early Germanic *xarvað- would have become
Common Slavic **xorvod- > **xravod- in dialects related to Croatian.
Besides, where is the "-ian" part? One would definitely expect an
ethnonymic suffix like *-ên(-in)- or *-ak- in a name derived from a
mountain range.
Is this possible: sarasvati > haraquaiti (arachosia) > hrvat > kravat
> croat?