Re: Language - Area - Routes

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

> 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??

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> 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)

Volga's Turkic name sounds like Atil (if I recollect correctly).

Sergei