Re: Croatians and the Carpathians

--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:

> > Except perhaps exactly for "Hrvat"? As I read your reply, you're
> > saying that *xrvat- is not used in any Slavic language to

designate

> > the Carpathian mountains. But wasn't "Karpaty" (as you explained)

a

> > relatively recent loan (from some non-Grimm-shifting language,
> > possibly Roumanian)? Aren't the Carpathians today in a Slav-

depleted

> > (excuse the term) region? (It is also Germanic-depleted, and all
> > Germanic languages have given up *xarfaD-). Wouldn't it have been
> > possible for Slavs to have had a *xrvaty for the Carpathians

before

> > having loaned "Karpaty"?
> >
> > Torsten
>
> Slav depleted? Germanic-depleted? I don't understand.