About the name Poland

[Fredrik]

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





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