Odp: [tied] Re: Croatians and the Carpathians

"Attestation" is "documented use", not a conjecture about something that may or may not have happened. We know a Germanic reflex of *xarvaD- as a mountain name, so *that* is attested. We lack such attestation in Slavic.

Piotr

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Subject: Odp: [tied] Re: Croatians and the Carpathians

A-hm. As I recall you have pronounced the languages of the Skirni and Bastarni to be the first Germanic languages, and they were spoken in that general area (yes, I know, several hundred kilometers, but they were mobile SOBs). If they called the mountains *xarfaD- something, why wouldn't the Pre-Proto (etc) Slavs have called them something similar? Don't forget it's a geographical name, in which case you can't put up walls between your Proto-languages. That's independent attestation enough for me. Torsten

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