Re: [tied] Re: cardinal points

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 21732
Date: 2003-05-11

On Sat, 10 May 2003 18:28:46 -0700 (PDT), george knysh
<gknysh@...> wrote:


>*****GK: I'm not a linguist, so I could obviously be
>wrong on this (but it's a very minor point in
>connection with the larger issue being discussed and
>my being wrong here would not affect the larger
>argument). Apart from the Carpathian r. Molda and the
>Czech river whence moldavites, I knows of at least two
>other rivers Molda, both in Germany: one is located
>close to Hamburg,

Slavic Polabians used to live close to Hamburg.

>and the other is near Dessau (this
>Molda was mentioned by Martin Luther in one of his
>works).

The name Dessau sounds Slavic.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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