From: ualarauans
Message: 50783
Date: 2007-12-09
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
> It would be, if Germanic settlement names had survived in the area
> later colonized by Slavs (approx. the ex-GDR). There seems to be a
> general agreement in the sources I have seen that they didn't.
There's an article by Tomasz Czarnecki dealing with Gothic loans in
Polish [http://www.fh.ug.gda.pl/images/Czarnecki.pdf%5d. He lists Polish
Gdan'sk and Torun' under the category of "mögliche Entlehnungsfälle"
(pp. 11-13). Now if these settlement names are indeed Gothic, they
must have survived the later Slavic colonization of what is now Poland.