> > BTW, any Slavic modern idiom with the variant <sreda>?
>
> Yes, in those South Slavic dialects in which *e^ > e (in SSl. the
result
> of *er metathesis is was *re^, which is why Bulgarian, for
instance, has <srjada>)
...
> Piotr
hi guys, i'm not a linguist, about this szerda/srjada meaning "the
third day of the week" i'd like to know from you how does it relates
to Serdica(after the thracian tribe of Sardi) the capital of Dacia
Aureliana, wich was destroyed by the huns and was rebuilt by
Justinian under the name Triaditsa, and the bulgars or the slavs who
settled in the Balkans called it Sredec (read 'sredets').
Serdica/Triaditsa/Sredec became in 14th century Sofia, today capital
of Bulgaria.
I'd also like to ask you about the origin of the word Balkan, and if
there is any relation to Balkh/Bokhara in Afghanistan, i'm thinking
about the ancient MassaGetae who came as Alans (Ammianus Marcellinus
calls Alans as former MassaGetae) in today Bulgaria. is there any
Indo European connection for this Balkan word ?
cristi_mindrut