Re: Skalva

>From: cybalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf

Of tgpedersen

>I found on
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baltic_Tribes_c_1200.svg
>and
>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Prussian_clans_13th_century.png
>an area called Skalva in Lithuanian.

>This one
>Skalv- > (Slavic liquid metathesis)
>*Sklav- > (cluster simplification) >
>*Slav-
>I haven't seen before. Does it work?

>Torsten

No, it doesn't. Baltic *Skalw- (a mobile circumflex in Standard Lithuanian,
though not necessarily an etymological one) would yield Common Slavic
*skôlv- (in the barytones of c-words) or *skólv- (in pre-Dybo stem-stressed
b-words), that would yield eg. Russ. +skólov- or +skolóv- (the actual Old
Russ. form has slov-, the Modern Standard Russian orthogram <slav-> reflects
"akan'e" and is unetymological), Polish +skl/ow- or *skl/ów- (actually
sl/ow-), OCS +sklav- (actually slov-) etc. Slavic has no problem with
SCR-clusters, so a simplification would be ad hoc. The attested Slavic forms
point to Common Slavic *slove^"ne, not +skolve^"ne or the like.

Sergei