Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "andelkod" <andelkod@...> wrote:
>>
>> I am interested is it possible to connect old slavic word for
> horned
>> cattle 'blago' (now treasure) with 'veles'/'volos'/'voloh' and all
>> that with 'Vlachs' as cattle breeders.
>>
>> Origin of 'blago'?
> *************
> 'Blago' ("etym. dub." - Buck) meant primarily "good" (translating
> Gk. 'agathos' in OCS) and secondarily "goods". Are you sure about
> those "horned cattle"?
> Dan
What seems strange to the celtic "volcae" is the rendering in German.
If the germans got the name from the celts, then this must have been
"*wolhai".
It is not easy to explain the rendering of "o" in "a" then in Slavic.
Normaly we have an "a" > "o" in slavic not "o"> "a".
More, later, the Slavs they have has to do with the Greeks/ Byzanitne,
they have been the South Slavs. They show this "a" there in the form
"vlasi" ( the "s" make too some trouble just trough South Slavic or it
is eassy to explain?).
The west and North slavs have "voloh". The Germans use "walach".
Now it seems very curious the loan back into Germanic from Slavic.
The west/north Slavic cannot bne the origin of the "walach" and the
South Slavic even could not have been due the form "vlas". I am not at
all the "volcae" etimology work even if almost accepted.
Alex