--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> I just noticed that since Czarnetski thinks it might
> be either of
> Slavic descent, referring to Rospond, or Germanic
> descent, referring
> to Rymut and Warchol/ and the source you cite claims
> it must be
> Slavic, referring to the authority of Rospond, I
> would be grateful if
> you might quote relevant passages from the two other
> sources too?
>
>
> Torsten
****GK: There are alternate etymologies in the Wiki
"Torun" article. Have a look. I suspect that the
Germanic etymologies all have to do with the town
founded in 1233. This is possible because we don't
apparently know the name of the Slavic/Polish
settlement which existed there from ca. 600 CE. So the
German etymologies argue for the original German
source of the 1233 "Thorn" and the Polish etymologies
try to figure out what this "Thorn" might have been in
the period 600-1233. But it may have been called by an
entirely different name then! In any case, none of
this really matters for your thesis, because there
seems to have been no settlement there of any sort
between ca. 400 BCE and ca. 600 CE. So anyone
"starting out" from that spot (if they did which is
more than wholly doubtful) in the 1rst c. BCE would
hardly call themselves after a name which did not
arise (certainly) for another 1300 years or (possibly)
for another 650 or so...****
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