Re: [tied] Etymology of "Warsaw"

From: Joao
Message: 33978
Date: 2004-09-03

Any link to Germanic *-avia (*-aujo:) ?
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From: ziedoros
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Etymology of "Warsaw"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@......> wrote:
>It appears interesting that in Slovakian /Czechian part there is not
this
> "ovia" but "-ava" which is having the same form as the ancients "-
ava"
> (Sava, Morava). The toponims in Rom. which ends in "-ov" are
masculine
> (Râs^nov, Bucov) but I cannot recall of any feminine in "-ova" by
now.

Maybe Craiova (< Kraljova)