About the name Poland

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Fredrik" <gadrauhts at h...> wrote:
>
> According to a source I have the name of Poland comes from a slavic 
> word pol- that is equal to the germanic fal-. Fal- is a part of some 
> city names in Sweden such as Falun and Falköping. I'm not sure what 
> stem this word belonged to but a guess would be u-stem. In gothic 
this 
> would be *falus in that case and couldn't we have Faluland for 
Poland? 
> Maybe you think this i way too far and unsimilar to the name in other 
> languages...maybe I think so too. This was just a thought that came 
to 
> me right now...
> 
> /Fredrik


Hi Fredrik,

I think it is widely accepted that the name Poland is derived from an 
ethnonym Polane, the name of the west Slawic people who settled in the 
region in early medieval time. The name Polane, in turn, derives from 
slavic 'pole' meaning field. The names Poland and Poles have absolutely 
nothing to do with Gothic or Germanic in general.

Cheers
Dirk





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