Re: Early Croatian names

On Čet, lipanj 19, 2008 12:33 am, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> According to P. Skok (ERHSJ, pp. 690-692) there are many assumptions
> about the meaning of ethnicon Hrvat. The problem is: does �ato is
> part of the root or is a suffix? Maretic thinks that it is suffix and
> this is linked to Prophirogenet's etymology that word `hrvati' in
> Slavonic languages means the ones that posses big amount of land, so
> the word was connected to Greek hora `land' and suffix �at (of the
> type brkat, plecat, krakat).

This is actually impossible. The -at of Hr`va:t is long and the -at of
br`kat, ple`c/at, kra`kat is short. Totally different suffixes obviously.

Mate