Re: Vilga

> If your question concerns the etymology of the Volga, the derivation
> from the Slavic root *vIlg- 'wet' (cf. Russ. volgnut', Pol. wilgna,c'
> 'become wet', wilgotny 'moist', wilz.yc' 'moisten'), related to Baltic
> *vilg- (both are the nil grades of *welg-, attested also in Germanic),
> is indeed frequently offered by etymological dictionaries.
>
> Piotr

And what of the... Bulgars/Bolgars (i.e. Protobulgarians)? (*bul(g)a- ?)

George