Re: Croatians and the Carpathians

> Except perhaps exactly for "Hrvat"? As I read your reply, you're
> saying that *xrvat- is not used in any Slavic language to designate
> the Carpathian mountains. But wasn't "Karpaty" (as you explained) a
> relatively recent loan (from some non-Grimm-shifting language,
> possibly Roumanian)? Aren't the Carpathians today in a Slav-depleted
> (excuse the term) region? (It is also Germanic-depleted, and all
> Germanic languages have given up *xarfaD-). Wouldn't it have been
> possible for Slavs to have had a *xrvaty for the Carpathians before
> having loaned "Karpaty"?
>
> Torsten

Slav depleted? Germanic-depleted? I don't understand.