Re: Slav names from *Walh-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@>

wrote:

> > >
> > > At 5:23:24 PM on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, alexandru_mg3
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > ... and if you will go further Vallachia is finally linked
> > > > with Walhalla - the great hall in Norse mythology where
> > > > heroes slain in battle are received
> > >
> > > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valhalla
> > >
> > > The etymological information at that very site shows that
> > > there's no connection.
> > >
> > > Brian
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > 1. If the root is *welh2- 'to wound' in Wal-[halla]
> >
> > 2. Why *wal-[h-] (< *Vlach] cannot have a meaning somewhere
> > between 'deadly enemy' to 'prisoner'?
> >
> > Marius
>
> What do you mean by '*wal-[h-] (< *Vlach]'? That Germanic borrowed

the

> word from Slavic with reverse metathesis?
>
>
> Torsten

Sorry: please read Germanic *wal-[h-] (> Slavic Vlach-]

I put < by mistake

Marius