Re: Slav names from *Walh-

Włochy "hairy, Italian" is a great coincidence.


--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> I know the various Polish and Russian names from
> PGmc. *walh.
> "southern foreigner" in -lo-/-olo- probably follow
> ordinary rules of
> derivation from Proto-Proto-Slav. -al-.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Vlach
> I just want to be sure: Are we absolutely certain
> all Slavic forms
> from Germanic *walh- are from exactly that form in
> -al- and not
> something earlier (I'm thinking of the original -ol-
> in Celtic Volcae)?
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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