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

> On 9/6/04 8:20 PM, petusek wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Based on zilch, it seems. Bratislava has had several different names;
> the current Slovak one was, I suspect, artificially remodelled at one
> point to connect it with the name of Bratislav (Braslav), a Pannonian
> ruler who lived ca. AD 900. His name has nothing to do with 'brother';
> the first element is the verb stem *borti- 'fight, strike'. But
> Brezalaus-purg, Pressburg etc. are surely derived from Predslav (=
> Preclav --> Brezalau), a different Slavic name (*perd- = 'before'). In
> neither case is there anything Hungarian or Turkic about the name.

Oh yes, that's why I wondered. Thank you.

Petusek

>
> Piotr