Re: Another group of "Veneti"?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyatichi
>  
> A couple of points. The story about the eponymous ancestor "Vyatko"
> seems a later construction. The East Slavic modification of "in-"
> and "en-" to "ya" is what suggest a Venetic name for them. "They
> came from the west": what is also interesting is that the material
> culture of the Viatichi is practically if not entirely similar to
> that of the eastern Galindians. So there's a lot of room for
> speculation here.

Proto-Slavic *ę (eN, nasal e <- PIE -en-) -> Russian -ya-, IIRC.



Torsten