Re[2]: [tied] Re: Etymology of "Warsaw"

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 34037
Date: 2004-09-06

At 7:31:53 AM on Monday, September 6, 2004, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 9/6/04 1:15 PM, tgpedersen wrote:

>> Why no metathesis in 'Warcisl/aw'?

> The failure of this particular metathesis is regular in
> Pomeranian/Kashubian dialects and sporadically found
> throughout Poland in placenames and personal names (more
> frequently in the north). There were several Pomeranian
> dukes with that name, and one Warcislaw is known to have
> been an official at the court of Duke Konrad of Mazovia in
> the 13th century.

This is the same name as in <princeps Wartizlauus> 1153 (of
Pomerania), <domino Wartizlauo castellano de Stetin> 1178,
<Obiit Wartizlaus filius Suantobori> 1196, <Wartyzlaus dei
gracia dux Slavorum et Kassubie> 1311, etc.?

Brian