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From: agraps@netcom.com (Amara Graps)
Subject: Re: Etymology of Warsaw and Kiev?
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hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) writes:

> I don't know anything about
>Warsaw, but it could be from one of the Baltic languages. IT sounds
>like Tartu, or Turku, especially if it was more like Warsau or
>Warsauw. It could be from Uralic.


Minor nitpick. Estonian (where you got your "Tartu" town), and
Finnish, (where you got your "Turku" town) are members of the
Finno-Ugric language branch, which is a subdivision of the Uralic
language branch. Hungarian is related too. There is not a "w" in the
Estonian and Finnish languages (I guess one would use 'v'). This
branch is completely separate from the Baltic branch. (It's not even
on the same tree.)

The Baltic language branch has Latvian, Lithuanian and old Prussian
(extinct) and is a subdivision of Balto-Slavic branch.  Neither
language has a 'w' and Latvian words don't end in 'au'.  But some
Lithuanian words do. Lithuanian, by the way, may be the oldest
Indo-European language.

Amara


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