Volga

[gladney frank y]

Students of Proto-Slavic appreciate Alexander Sitzmann's second, improved
etymology of _Volga_ ('the wet one').  Yet one wonder how the _l_ in his
*_wlga_ managed to produce what he calls a svarabhakti _i_, thus >
*_wilga_ (subsequently darkened to _u_ and lowered to _o_ before
tautosyllabic _l_), when in a presumed *_glk-_ 'noise' the _l_ in a very
similar environment produced a svarabhakti _u_ (cf. in Polish _wilk_
'wolf' but _zgielk_ [barred l] 'noise'). The syllable nuclei of *_wlg-_
and *_glk-_ must have differed. See Diels, _Aksl. Gramm._, par. 15, note
6.

Frank Y. Gladney

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