Re: Romanian Loan in OCS?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 26592
Date: 2003-10-22

All these non-Germanic examples show that the Germanic
> 'king/ruler' word was easily borrowable (as was later Slavic *korlj-

> [from Charlemagne's name] --> Rom. crai, Hung. király).
>

I can see why Caesar > Kaiser, tsar' since the folowing imperators
formally adopted the name of Caesar, thus making the once family name
a title, but Charlemagne's successors didn't call themselves Carls,
as far as I know?

Torsten