Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5964
Date: 2001-02-08

What?? Attila is the Gothic word for "daddy", from atta 'father' with the same suffix that we see in Wulfila ("little wolf") -- a Germanic nickname given him by the Goths. Where is "Attila" attested as a name of the Volga??
 
Piotr
 
 
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Hemming then presumes a connection with the rivers Don and Dniepr.
(eg. "Attila" means "River Volga", and he was born there)