From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20588
Date: 2003-03-31
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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: RE: [tied] Vladimir
> --- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> > AFAIK, this (Proto-)Slavic name is usually reconstructed as *Voldime^rU
>
> *****GK: Why not *Vlod- ? With the second "o" a later addition? On Volodymyr's coins the name appears as either "Vladim(i,e)r" (the usual notion is that this is a Bulgarian/Macedonian form) or "Volodimer".*****
Sergei gave the reconstructed Proto-Slavic form. PSl. *vold- is what underlies East Slavic <volod->, Polish/Sorbian <vlod->, and Czech/Slovak/South Slavic <vlad->. By the same token PSl. *gord- changed into <gorod->, <grod->, <grad->, and PSl. *melko into <moloko>, <mleko>, <mle^ko>. Those changes took place ca. AD 800.
Piotr