[tied] Re: Slavic peoples and places

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

> I wonder. Polish has never had any sort of g-lenition, and yet we

have <ga,sienica>. It seems that both variants have existed since a
very early time. *go~sen- may be due to folk-etymology ("goose-neck
worm").

>

...if not just a borrowing from (or developed under the influence of)
the East Slavs.