Re: [tied] Slavic placenames

What is then proposal for origin of placename called 'Lubenik'?


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 19-01-04 14:10, andelkod wrote:
>
> > Oldest attested name for Ljubljana is Luwigana (slavic form) and
> > Laibach (german form). Landscape around Ljubljana is dominated by

an

> > exposed round hill, so, I tend to connect Ljubljana with

*lUbI 'head,

> > skull', rather then love. Why not? What love can have with one
> > medieval burg located on top of hill?
>
> Names of cities do not necessarily derive from their topographic
> features. I don't think Leibach/Labacum is related to the Slavic

name

> (let alone *lUbI 'skull'). Mediaeval Luvigana may be just a crude
> orthographic rendering of Slavic *ljubjana (I've seen far stranger
> corruptions). The root *ljub- yields many personal, tribal and
> geographical names in Slavic. As for *lUbI, it doesn't produce any
> derivatives with *ljub-.
>
> Piotr