Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: cardinal points

You could be right Brian. I got the references when I
typed in "Molda" and "river" on my search engine. I'll
try to remember where I got the notion that the
Carpathian Molda (va) was an Old Germanic hydronym. I
know it wasn't from the Internet. Unfortunately I made
no note at the time... GK

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 9:28:46 PM on Saturday, May 10, 2003, george
> knysh wrote:
>
> > *****GK: I'm not a linguist, so I could obviously
> be wrong
> > on this (but it's a very minor point in connection
> with
> > the larger issue being discussed and my being
> wrong here
> > would not affect the larger argument). Apart from
> the
> > Carpathian r. Molda and the Czech river whence
> moldavites,
> > I knows of at least two other rivers Molda, both
> in
> > Germany: one is located close to Hamburg, and the
> other is
> > near Dessau (this Molda was mentioned by Martin
> Luther in
> > one of his works). I assumed the word to be
> Germanic.*****
>
> Isn't that last one the Mulde? According to Ernst
> Schwarz,
> the name was Gmc. <Milda> into the 11th century,
> which was
> eventually replaced by Sorbian <Mulda> from
> <Moldava>. He
> doesn't comment further on <Moldava>, but he has a
> number of
> instances of Gmc. river names in *<-ahwa> borrowed
> into Cz.
> with <-awa>.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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