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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> I agree with Trubachov that the Stavani are the Slavs. .....
> I would also argue that the Ptolemaic nomenclature,
> which reflects the Indo-Iranic notion of "glory", is
> an argument in favour of that concept rather than
> "word" or "speech" being the original meaning of Slav.
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Golab (sorry, I just happen to have his book handy) takes
another Ptolemaic tribal name, Suobenoi, as the primary form, later
modified to Stavinoi, Slovinoi, etc. and derives it from
*s(u_)e-bho- "ourSelves" (like the Suebi or the Samnites)with
the "Glory" and "Word" meanings being later misinterpretations.
Is an idiosyncratic nutty idea, or could there be something to
it?
Dan