From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60920
Date: 2008-10-15
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
>> Is there a meaning and ety. for /lex/?
>> I'm guessing it's not Germnanic
>
> It was actually *leNxU; the vowel lost its nasality in some Slavic
> dialects (esp. in East Slavic Ljaxi), but cf. Lith. Lenkas and Hung.
> Lengyel for Poles. *-x- is a common hypocoristic suffix in Slavic; the
> full ethnonym was *leNde^ne ("Lendians"), sg. *leNde^ninU, from *leNdo
> 'barren land'. An alternative suffix occured in the byform *leNditji
> (<Lendizi> in the Bavarian Geographer).
>
> Piotr
>
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Hungarian lengyel suggests a proto-form *lendz^el
Which does not seem to exist in the collection of variants.
Arnaud