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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:
> I doubt that the Narva has anything to do with this. From its
> location I'd suspect a Finnic origin (and it has a Finnic sound to my
> ignorant ear).
Indeed:
http://tinyurl.com/y6ts4c
"Narva -- in vepsi ([a Finnic-speaking] indigenous nation here)
language means waterfall."
http://www.enlight.ru/camera/308/index_e.html
"According to one of the versions, the name 'Narva' is derived from
Western Finnish 'narvaine' -- 'water rapid, waterfall'.
Regards,
Francesco