OCS, Polish, and other Modern Slavic languages

[Robert Orr]

The Graeco-Russian example is a red herring.  Karl in that context would
have been a Scandinavian/Varangian name, i.e., also ultimately Germanic.

>What you might as well say is "rather as Caesar became Kaiser or Tsar."  Does
>that prove something about the relation of German and Russian?  How do we
>characterize the sound shifts difference between czar, tsar and kaiser?
>(More interesting is the relation of "karl" to such words as "churl",
>"coerl", "krailik" and "czele" and the fact that the individual name "Karl"
>shows up in a 900 Graeco-Russian treaty alongside of names like  "Boris" and
>"Vlad".  That's a little more tricky.  Almost makes you wonder which way the
>borrowing went.)