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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > *****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->.
there is also the IXth c. Serbian ruler 'Vlastimer', which would be
another, 100% Slavic, form of 'Vladimir'? Other names in -mir: the
Serb 'Mintimer', 'Stroemer', the Croat Ratimir, Tirpimir, and from
Bulgaria - Loubomir, Kotomir (813 AD).
Regards,
Vassil