Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate (re "folk" "polk" "pulkas")

From: bmscotttg
Message: 64471
Date: 2009-07-29

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

> On 2009-07-29 18:07, Anatoly Guzaev wrote:

>> Sviatopolk seems to be the same name as South-Slavic, I think
>> Serbian, Svetolik ('white face', 'white effigy'). Of course,
>> svet could also mean 'world, holy, sacred, sacremental', but
>> all these meanings are derived from the word svetlo 'light'
>> (cf. Eng. white).

> No, they aren't. The homonymy of the two words in some Slavic
> languages is accidental, due to local mergers of *e^ and *eN.
> The name *sveNto-pUlkU is attested in languages preserving the
> Slavic nasal vowels, so there can be no doubt as to the identity
> of the first element.

Some examples from Gerhard Schlimpert, Slawischen Personennamen
in mittelalterlichen Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte: <Sventipolk>
1121, <Zuentopolch> 1126/27, <Swanthepolk> 1285, <Swantepolk> 1343.

Brian