From: Trond Engen
Message: 67823
Date: 2011-06-22
> Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VyatichiMuch like the name ~Venceslav. Thinking of it, could the first element
>
> 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.