[tied] Re: Old Bulgarian -- Krivichian toponymic parallels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:


Thank you for this correction, I hope I could put it on my
site as a commentary to the main text. And if I may ask you
about the Slavic etymology of the Bulgar territory/refuge
on the Danube, somewhere between northern Dobrudzha and
southern Bessarabia. In the Greek chrnicles it was given as
Onglos (Ogglos) and interpreted as Slavic Ong&l (angle,
corner), consistent with the modern (Turkic) name for
southern Bessarabia - Budzhak. Is this OK?

Regards,
Vassil

> A connection to Old Russian <plesU>, Russian <plës>, Ukr.
> <pléso> '', Czech, Slovak <pleso> (< *plesU 'flat and
> shallow part of a river; still waters' < PIE *pleth2-s-
> 'flat') is highly improbable (nearly impossible, since it
> would require a quirky metathesis of otherwise
> unattested reflex of zero grade *-Il- > *-lI-, which
> would be normal in Germanic, less common in Baltic and
> very rare in Slavic).
>
> > Even now, there is a small town
> > called Pliskov in Central Ukraine, in the Vinicka district.
>
> If it's indeed <Pliskov> (not <Plyskov>), then it directly
> supports my etymology (belonging to the same etymon as
> *PlIskova (Pliska)

I think the Balkan form is indeed Pliskova, in the Byzantine sources.

Regards,
Vassil

and <PlIskovU>), since it can only

> continue earlier *Ple^skovU < *ple^sk- (rather than *ples-).
>
> Sergei