Hi everyone!
What should be the etymology of the
Polish capital city name?
(This is what Polish Wikipedia says:
Nazwa miasta pochodzi od formy dzierżawczej imienia Warsz, czyli Warszowa
lub Warszewa. Popularna
etymologia ludowa wywodzi
nazwę od imion rybaka
Warsa
i wiślanej syreny
Sawy)
{i.e. Warszawa < proper name Warsz, that is
Warszowa or Warszewa, popular folk etymology says there was a fisherman Wars and
a .... siren Sawa}
One of my ideas is that Warsz- (if one admits,
that it might be an old "conservated", "frozen" form of a Slavic proper name)
could (in a way) be < OS *vIrchU < IE *wers- "an elevated place"
... :-) somehow :-) What do you think? Better ideas?
Petusek