>*****GK: Does this intimate that the German "Moldas"
>are Slavic names? I was thinking of analogies to terms
>like "Fulda" or "Alda", but I guess that's rather
>primitive.*****
These __.....-LD__ things really look German(ic)
(as well as... Hungarian). But as far as
toponymy and hydronymy of the eastern half
of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation
(in brief: das Reich) is concerned, I'd be
cautious: many a name there is actually Slavic
(incl. Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Lübeck).
And in the Eastern regions also include
Bavarian-Franconian areas adjacent to Bohemia
as well as Austria.
George