Re: cardinal points

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <gs001ns@...> wrote:

> >*****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.
>

The area of Slavic settlement in the present Germany corresponds
roughly to the area of the defunct German Democratic Repuplic,
strangely enough.

Torsten