[tied] Re: Etymology of "Warsaw"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:

> > Brian M. Scott wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> > does this name has something to do with the

Slovakian "bratislava" or this

> > is derived direct from "brat-"?
> >
> > Alex
>
> I found an interesting piece of information at
> http://www.dunainfo.sk/dunajskastreda/sk/priroda.htm (written in

Slovak). At

> the beginning of Xth century - in 907 AD - the city was called
> Brezalauspurg, and as decades and centuries passed by, its name

stabilized

> as "Pressburg", however some people thing the word is of Hungarian

or even

> Turkic origin (but I do not know what these assumptions are based

on).

>
> Petusek

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That page doesn't offer a return to the home page, but if you go
there directly:
http://www.dunajinfo.sk/dunajskastreda
you have your choice of Slovak, Hungarian or English.
Dan