Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate (re "folk" "polk" "pulkas")

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 64472
Date: 2009-07-29

On 2009-07-29 20:29, bmscotttg wrote:

> Some examples from Gerhard Schlimpert, Slawischen Personennamen
> in mittelalterlichen Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte: <Sventipolk>
> 1121, <Zuentopolch> 1126/27, <Swanthepolk> 1285, <Swantepolk> 1343.

These, I suppose, would refer mostly to the dukes of Pomerania so named
(= <S'wie,topel/k> in the Polish tradition). The two Svatopluks of
Moravia also have <en> or <an> in Frankish, Latin and Greek versions of
their name (not to mention Slavic sources).

Piotr