the two mirs

[Alina Israeli]

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:

>I am wondering then what etimology you would attach to Vladislav, or
>(Serbian) Ljubomir. The existance of the whole nest of the Slavic names
>(with seemingly obvious morphemas) questions the idea of the origin
>from Voldemar. Could it be vice versa?

There is also Radomir, Bulgarian Blagomir, Czech Jaromir (and probably
others) and let's not forget Velemir.

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