About the name Poland

[thiudans]

--- 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
>
I know these Gmc. roots:

*fala- "buyable, for sale"
*fal-l- "fall, sink, flee"
*falwa- "pale, yellow, dun, sickly"

But I understand the word Poland to come from *pole "field, flat
land", thus Gmc. *fel†a- "field". The country name could be *Fil†jans
"Field-men", but the Goths only knew *hai†i or *akrs in this sense,
unless the tribal name had been passed down from early times.







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