Re[2]: [tied] Re: cardinal points

At 9:28:46 PM on Saturday, May 10, 2003, george knysh 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, and the other is
> near Dessau (this Molda was mentioned by Martin Luther in
> one of his works). I assumed the word to be Germanic.*****

Isn't that last one the Mulde? According to Ernst Schwarz,
the name was Gmc. <Milda> into the 11th century, which was
eventually replaced by Sorbian <Mulda> from <Moldava>. He
doesn't comment further on <Moldava>, but he has a number of
instances of Gmc. river names in *<-ahwa> borrowed into Cz.
with <-awa>.

Brian