Re: [tied] Slavic placenames

19-01-04 12:32, andelkod wrote:

> Amateur question regarding slavic root *lub or *lob meaning skull,
> cranium (lubanja, lobanja) and from the same root also 'lubenica'
> (watermellon).
> The meaning can be even an exposed and visible hill.
> So, placenames like Lubenik, Lubenice, Lubnica, Lubenka, Lubyanka,
> and even Ljubljana and Ljubelj, I suspect, can be connected with this
> root (locations with exposed and visible hill).
> Placenames like Lomnica could also be result of development from
> Lobnica and Lovnik from Lobnik.
> Am I wrong?

You're confusing several different etymological bases, such as *lUbU ~
*lUbI 'head, skull', *lubU 'bast, strip of wood or bark', *ljubiti
'love', and *lomiti 'break'. No connections, just similarity.

Piotr