Re: [tied] Re: Proto-Slavs and Slavs

bezrodny@... wrote:

> -IMHO, Slavic <morje> has meaning of "lake" as well as "sea".
> Ex. Old Russian "Chudskoe more" (Lake Ladoga).

But this does not apply to small ponds, but rather to huge (see-like) lakes.
Which lake could it be in the case of Proto-Slavs and their homeland?

> The one I heard of is that "Slovene" (self-appellation of
> various Slavic peoples/tribes living as far apart as Balkans
> and Northern Russia) was derived from "Slovo" (word).
> Pre-historic Slavs may have called themselves "the speaking"
> as opposed to surrounding "unintelligibly speaking", "barbaric"
> tribes.

The only argument (that I heard of) against this hypothesis is that the word
"slovo" would be very unlikely to be used in this case. One would rather
expect something related to the words "speaking" or "language". It's hard to
imagine that early Slavs called themselves "Worders".
I've heard about a dozen of different theories on this subject. Some of them
are listed on these websites:
http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/fadlan/lozinski.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14042a.htm

Since both texts are rather old, I was curious, whether any new concepts
emerged recently.

Regards,

Michal