Re: Slav names from *Walh-

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 56091
Date: 2008-03-28

At 2:51:01 PM on Thursday, March 27, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
>> <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> <BMScott@> wrote:

>>>> At 5:23:24 PM on Wednesday, March 26, 2008,
>>>> alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>>>>> ... and if you will go further Vallachia is finally

>>>>> linked with Walhalla - the great hall in Norse
>>>>> mythology where heroes slain in battle are received

>>>>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valhalla

>>>> The etymological information at that very site shows
>>>> that there's no connection.

>>> Why?

>>> 1. If the root is *welh2- 'to wound' in Wal-[halla]

>>> 2. Why *wal-[h-] (< *Vlach] cannot have a meaning
>>> somewhere between 'deadly enemy' to 'prisoner'?

[...]

> Sorry: please read Germanic *wal-[h-] (> Slavic Vlach-]

Because PGmc. *walxa- isn't plausibly to be derived from PIE
*welh2-.

Brian