About the name Poland

[Ingemar Nordgren]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
>
> --- 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

Hi Dirk,

I think you have misunderstood  Fredrik! He just suggested the NAME
Poland could possibly be translated as 'Faluland' in Gothic as a
neologism I presume. Accordingly he makes no connection between the
NAME Poland and the Goths.
Best
Ingemar





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