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Re: I'm back, and an 'ow' question ...

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Friday, November 1, 2002, 7:05
 --- Pavel Iosad wrote:

> > > I was told it was from some local Slavic language, which I couldn't get > > > specified stricter than "not Sorbian". Can anyone here give more > > > information? > > > > Maybe West Baltic (aka Old Prussian)? "Berlin" itself IIRC > > is a Baltic name, likewise other place names ending in "-in". > > Hmm, no I guess it _is_ Slavic. As much of present-day Germany was > inhabited by Slavs at some point, they have naturally left this > onomasticon legacy. Being no historian, I simply can't say which of the > tribes lived around present-day Berlin, but what they spoke was > definitely some West Slavic language, now extinct.
The language referred to is probably Polabian. It was spoken in the "far west" of Slavic territory.
> Many geographical names in Germany proper are Slavic, such as Leipzig > (cf. Lipetsk in modern-day Russia), as well as the surnames of much the > Prussian aristocracy (von Bülow, for instance).
"Lipsk" in Polish. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com