W dniu 2012-03-09 02:30, Rick McCallister pisze:
> There is a Serbian name Nebozho (sp?) "fearless" that my Serbian friends
> claim is linked to Boris. Is this true or just folk etymology?
Don't they mean Nebojs^a? It's the diminutive of *nebojI, nothing to do
with Boris. Many sources give it's meaning as 'fearless' (from *bojati
seN 'fear, be scared'), though I have doubts about it, as the element
*-bojI in personal names is normally identical with the appellative
*bojI 'battle, fight' (from *biti 'beat'). If so, the actual meaning
would be 'no-fight' (a bahuvrihi for 'one who doesn't fight, a peaceful
one').
Piotr