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

From: Steve Woodson
Message: 5987
Date: 2001-02-09

There was the city of Itil on the Volga, at the Caspian Sea.
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Subject: [tied] 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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> > From: tgpedersen@...
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> > Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
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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)
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> Volga's Turkic name sounds like Atil (if I recollect correctly).
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> Sergei
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