Re: [tied] Ancient Greek name for Volga River

On 2007-03-21 09:32, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Our brilliant colleagues can sort that out but I'm
>> also interested in where Volga is from. Is it related
>> to a word for "turn" or what?
>
> It's usually connected to the Balto-Slavic root *val?g-/*vil?g- (? for
> the acute tone) 'moisture' < *w(o)lg-.

A semantic calque from Iranian?

Piotr