Re: Slavic "lada"

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

> Could anybody help me with OCz lada "virgin, girl", S-Cr

lada "wife", R/Ukr lada "wife, mistress", please? Any cognates? Any
etymological attempts?

>
> If it is a loan, does it have something to do with Gr. Léda, Letó,

Lat. La:to:na??? Thanks for any help or advice.

>
> Petusek

As for me, it's a quite ancient Caucasian loanword. There are similar
forms in Anatolian: /lada/ "mistress". In Latin there is a
gloss /lada/ "woman", I think it's directly from Etruscan /*latha/.

Marco