TORSTEN
wrote:
Vasmer Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch
has:
'xolóp, -а "servant, slave", xolopáj "servant, servile
person", Ukrainan choÅóp "serf, peasant", Belorussian cholóp, Old Russian
cholopÑ, n. pl. -i, g. pl. -ej (Mosk. Urk. 16.-17. Jhdt., s. Sobolevskij Lekcii
198), Russian - Church Slavonic chlapÑ "servant, slave", Old Bulgarian chlapÑ
δοÏ
~λοÏ, ο`ικÎÏÎ·Ï (Supr.), Bulgarian chlápe n., chlapák
"boy", Serbo-Croat hl`à p g. hl`à pa and hlâp, Slovenian hlâp "boor", Czech,
Slovak chlap "fellow, farmer, man", Polish. chÅop, Upper Sorbian khÅop,
khÅopc "fellow, chap", Lower Sorbian kÅopc. ||
Proto-Slavic or
ORussian *cholpÑ was borrowed early in Latvian kalps "farmhand, worker", s.
M.-Endz. 2, 144. etc.....
He also previously posted the
following segment:
Peter
Heather:
Empires and Barbarians
pp. 565-566
The Arab
geographers report that the Rus raided westwards for their victims, while the
'western Slavs' raided eastwards. Confirmation of this picture is provided by
the distribution of the Muslim silver coins that came back north in return for
all the slaves and furs.
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ISHINAN: Actually, besides hoards
of Arabic silver coins, we also have linguistic artifacts that
confirm this unusual and interesting link.
For example, on the "slave"
topic, compare the Arabic term "glb" which means slave and slave traffic
with *xol-p, *kol-p
"slave".
While on the topic of "fur",
compare it with the Arabic term frw / fra' with the
exact meaning.
To view more on the subject, click the following
URL:
All the best
Ishinan
November 13 th., 2011