Re: Slav names from *Walh-

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:03:19 -0000, "tgpedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>I know the various Polish and Russian names from PGmc. *walh.
>"southern foreigner" in -lo-/-olo- probably follow ordinary rules of
>derivation from Proto-Proto-Slav. -al-.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Vlach
>I just want to be sure: Are we absolutely certain all Slavic forms
>from Germanic *walh- are from exactly that form in -al- and not
>something earlier (I'm thinking of the original -ol- in Celtic Volcae)?

Since Slavic did not distinguish between /o/ and /a/, that
would be hard to tell. The /h/, however, shows it was
borrowed from Germanic *walh-.

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