Re: Another group of "Veneti"?

W dniu 2011-06-23 12:21, Torsten pisze:

> Another thing, Polish Węngry "Hungarians" seems to follow the usual
> Slavic development of Proto-Slavic *o,- <- earlier *oN- (and one can
> even obtain a h- from Sorbian, if one wishes). Does that mean the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onogurs
> were known to the Proto-Slavs in their Urheimat, wherever that was (or
> even to their predecessors)?

It simply means that the name was borrowed early enough for the *on- to
be substituted by Slavic *oN- (nasal vowel) at a time when all Slavic
dialects still had it (i.e., not later than the mid 10th century). The
*v- prothesis in (Proto-)Polish was obligatory before any *oN-,
inherited or borrowed (e.g. <we,borek> 'bucket', diminutive of *oNborU
from early Low German ambar).

Piotr