From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 56091
Date: 2008-03-28
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"[...]
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
>> <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:
>>> --- 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.
>>> 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'?
> Sorry: please read Germanic *wal-[h-] (> Slavic Vlach-]Because PGmc. *walxa- isn't plausibly to be derived from PIE