From: Torsten
Message: 67838
Date: 2011-06-23
>I've seen Russian polnoglasie presented as taking place after a commom Slavic liquid metathesis, but weren't they contemporary? If so, how should the lot be presented?
> W dniu 2011-06-23 02:00, Rick McCallister pisze:
>
> > And Wl/adisl/aw? Wasn't that Gomulka's first name?
>
> That's *voldi-slavU 'rule + fame'. The first element is the same as
> Germanic *walD- (Eng. wield etc.). Again, the expected Polish form
> should be (and was once) <Wl/odzisÅaw>, but Czech cultural influence
> during the Renaissance led to the "bohemisation" of the name.
>
> Generally, Proto-Slavic medial *oRC (where R = r or l) became East
> Slavic oRoC, Polish and Sorbian RoC, and Czech, Slovak and South
> Slavic RaC, hence the variants <volod-/vlod-/vlad-> (Russian Vlad-
> as in Vladimir is of Church Slavic origin, hence the Southern
> vocalisation, but the pet-form is still Volodya).