Re: [tied] Ancient Greek name for Volga River

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-03-21 09:32, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Our brilliant colleagues can sort that out but I'm
> >> also interested in where Volga is from. Is it related
> >> to a word for "turn" or what?
> >
> > It's usually connected to the Balto-Slavic root *val?g-/*vil?g- (?

for

> > the acute tone) 'moisture' < *w(o)lg-.
>
> A semantic calque from Iranian?

I was thinking about that. But what does one make of Vlha and Wilga
then? A case of different motivation with the same outcome, accidently?

Sergei