Re: [tied] Re: Romanian Loan in OCS?

22-10-03 13:00, tgpedersen wrote:

> I can see why Caesar > Kaiser, tsar' since the folowing imperators
> formally adopted the name of Caesar, thus making the once family name
> a title, but Charlemagne's successors didn't call themselves Carls,
> as far as I know?

No, but the word was borrowed _very_ early, most likely when Charlemagne
was still alive, otherwise it would have been too late to undergo the
various dialectal changes of *-orC- in Slavic. I suppose the Slavs heard
of the mighty ruler of the West, who wore a crown and was called <karl>.
A little later they began to crown their own "karls".

Piotr