On 2008-11-02 20:41, tgpedersen wrote:
> Do tell, Fyodor. Is it Tanew again?
No, I mean names like Kl/odobok < *kalda-bak(i)- 'cold stream', where
one can see both Grimm's Law and Verner's Law, several river names in
-awa which can plausibly be explained as *-axWo:, or pairs X : X-ing
like Wda < *vIda (a river) : Wdzydze (Videncze 1258, Widentz 1284) <
*vIdeNdz- <-- *widing- (a complex of five large lakes on the Wda, hence
the plural inflection). No matter what the river name meant originally
(perh. *wiþa- ~ *wiðo: 'band', in which case it would also exhibit the
effect of both laws), -ing- is Germanic _and_ Vernerian.
Piotr