From: george knysh
Message: 64368
Date: 2009-07-10
--- On Fri, 7/10/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
A terminus ante quem non of the Lestek name, if he is real, is the time period Gmc and Slavic cohabited.
****GK: Is Lestek as a personal name attested in Slavic languages other than Polish? If one argues that it only survived in Polish (a stretch) next question: is it attested in Baltic? If not, it would be the result of Germanic-Slavic contact posterior to the breakup of Baltoslavism. Most early borrowings from Germanic into Slavic are usually viewed as borrowings from Gothic, which would date them as not earlier than the time of the Chernyakhiv culture, in the 3rd/4th c. CE. Earlier Slavic/Germanic cohabitations are as yet undocumented.*****