Antes==An(ak)tes/Anakes=Anaktes

[gotenfreund]

I don't think the Slavic etymology is as absurd as you make it sound.

1. There is a semantic (and developmental) equivalent in the Germanic languages: German Herzog, which is attested in Old Saxon, Old High German, and Old English (and possibly others of which I am unaware). It originally meant "army" + "puller, tugger, attracter" (sorry for bad translation). So, "war leader" or "chieftain" in its archaic meaning, it later became, and is now, a hereditary title in German: "Duke".

2. nouns formed on the model "voiyevod" are common in Slavic: peshechod, lit. "go by foot", i.e. "pedestrian"; listopad, lit. "leaf-falling", i.e. "October"; Samoyed, lit. "self-eater", i.e. "cannibal", for the Russians thought the Samoyeds were cannibals when the first encountered them.

3. Your theory would need to explain how a Romanian term came into use in Kiev and Novgorod. Did the Romanians have such an influence on the Russian language, as well as all other Slavic languages?

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "dciurchea" <dciurchea at ...> wrote:
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> Everybody is aware of this slavic "translation" which makes no sense at all. The office is of King/Basileus not colonel.
>  
> 
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Ivan Kotliarov <lrpg@> wrote:
> >
> > In latin the equivalent is Dominus and Voievod(Voyevoda) - in romanian
> > - meaning "I allow you=Voie va dau(a da voie==to allow; va=to you ",
> > fitting the Greek Anakes as eplained by Plutarch, abreviated as
> > Voda/Wodan.    
> > 
> > Sorry, this is absolutely incorrect - Voievod came form Slavic
> > Voyevoda - Voye-Voda military leader (literally "one who conducts the
> > warriors")
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> > Best wishes,
> >  
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> >  
> > 
> >  
> > Ivan
> >
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