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

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> From: Vassil Karloukovski [mailto:v.karloukovski@...]

> 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?
>

I see no problem with Slavic *o,gUlU having been rendered as Greek
<ogglos> (it should reflect a language's state after ca. 800 but before
ca. 1000: *a had turned *o, the yers had nearly fallen, the nasals
hadn't been denasalized yet), but I can't guarantee that the etymology
is true: it takes too many factors to evaluate (eg., do other
undisputably Slavic toponyms of the same etymology exist? etc).

Sergei