Re: [tied] Etymology of "Warsaw"

> ziedoros wrote:
> > --- 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)
> >
>
>
> Right!!! Craiova !! But this will make sense in Slavic maybe as "feminine"
> since the word "crai" ( king ) has the feminine "crăiasă" in Rom. Which is
> the feminine of "kral" in Slavic?
>
> Alex

In Czech, the feminine of "kra:l" is "kra:lovna" < OCz kra:lovna = "king's
daughter" (kra:lov being probably gen.sg. of kra:l, and -na = feminine noun
deriv.)

Petusek