Re: [tied] Old Rus' of the many "nationes"

--- In cybalist@..., "Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...> wrote:

> "You state ..."
> I'd like to be able to state anything in linguistics...
> I can only compare linguistic and extralinguistic data.
> So I just ask professionals in linguistics to clear up some

questions,

> and I appreciate information you and other list members provide me.
>

Thank you. It was a probably false impression of mine that you
objected to what I hadn't actually said. :)
By the way, Vanagas considers a Baltic archetype of the Dnieper-word
impossible as well. If I come across such a reconstruction, I'll post
ASAP. I knew too little of Gothic to come up with an explanation of
how Baltic, say, *Dun-up-e: could end up as Slavic *DUne^prU (via
some intermediate Gothic form).

Sergei